Native apps on Vista (was Re: D, Java? To D or not to D?)

[Sean Kelly]

Carlos Santander wrote:
> Guest escribió:
>>
>> Only real reason to use C# is for Win Vista apps since native apps run 
>> in a
>> very suspicious box.
> 
> Would you care to explain that, please? I haven't used Vista so I don't 
> know what you're talking about.

If I remember correctly, .NET has a way of running native apps in a 
sandbox to apply its security features to the app.  During Microsoft's 
presentation, my first thought was "so this is how they plan to get MS 
Office running under .NET."  In theory it's kind of a neat idea, but the 
code security features are so badly designed that I don't expect them to 
be very popular.  The maintenance app in the control panel is ghastly, 
and in code I think it's actually possible to override code security if 
it's too much of an obstacle.  I can't remember the details of this last 
feature so I may be remembering it wrong, but at the time I was amazed 
that it was part of the design.


Sean