Porting VisualD to Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 6/10/2012 12:35 PM, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 June 2012 at 10:25:59 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> I was about to say that it works for me on VS11 RC :)
> Anyway it would be great to build with Windows 8 RC SDK, so my changes
> are potentially useful (but not necessary, nor important).
>

As you don't need the VS2012 SDK or the Windows 8 SDK to build Visual D, 
it does not seem urgent to do the translations, but it might be nice to 
have them as this is a fast way to update the interface headers to a new 
OS version. The recent version of the converter also translates "#ifdef 
_WIN64" to "version(Win64)" instead of throwing the code out, but I have 
not done a lot with it yet.

So far I have the beta of VS 2012 installed, and from the files you 
added to the translation, it seems that the release candidate has a few 
more files. I'll update my VS11beta to VS2012rc and will have a look.

At first glance, your way to translate the shared/um files seems fine, 
but I have yet to understand the text replacements. Those 
_null_terminated_ annotations (and similar) should probably be 
translated to their Win7 SDK version identifier __nullterminated. That 
way they might get handled correctly by the regex expressions.

Rainer