C+++
I guess two plus signs by the name of this great old language are not enough anymore. There are going to be a lot of cool features on "Orcas" and on the next versions. here are some of them :
- New MFC goodies for Vista UI
- Syslink (like a hyperlink, but nicer)
- Network address control
- Command link
- Split Button
- Support for Vista file dialogs, toolbars menus and more)
- LUA support in IDE & projects
- Meta Data based incremental managed builds and concurrency module compilation
- .NET FrameWork multi-targeting (so you can choose to what version of the FW to aim your deployment)
- Updated Spy++
- STL/CLR
- Class designer is back (but read-only... so... can we still call it a designer... time will tell...)
- More surprises on the near future
I guess there gonna be a bit of a struggle between MFC, WPF and Winforms (I'll place my bet on WPF)...