Many Windows Server admin tools (such as Server Manager or Virtual Machine Conne...

jamesfinlayson · 2025-07-31T05:47:20 1753940840

Calculator is C# as well (though apparently that's somewhat recent: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/1598).

pjmlp · 2025-07-31T06:22:30 1753942950

Porting to C# was a community effort after it went open source, it was originally C++/CX.

pjmlp · 2025-07-31T04:44:30 1753937070

Powershell is .NET Core since version 6, the .NET Framework one is Powershell 5.1.

Yeah, Microsoft themselves have issue moving away from .NET Framework.

You can add SQL Server CLR, Dynamics, Sharepoint on prem, to the list.

reactordev · 2025-07-31T00:52:08 1753923128

OMG could you imagine writing MMC snap-ins using some sort of plugin declspec import bs in C++? .Net and reflection with Assembly.Load saves so much time and effort to build modular “ship it now, deliver features later, extend it if we fall behind” apps. Not that those are good things, it just means you can defer until your MS PM gets the budget to fill those backfill positions that have been open for 12 months because the hiring bar is astrophysics

pjmlp · 2025-07-31T04:49:15 1753937355

I can, because due to Windows team love for COM and C++, many extension points require doing exactly that.

Want to extend the context menu actions, or add new thumbnail capabilities for a recent file format?

It is exactly that.

Even with WinRT Runtime Components, they were doing in a way that some APIs were only surfaced when using the components from C++.

Quite a different approach from OS / language teams at Apple and Google, where productivity with better languages has a priority no matter what.