Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust

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  • CsWinRT

    C# language projection for the Windows Runtime

  • It only uses WinMD as the format for metadata input for code generation. The output for C# is still a bunch of P/Invoke declarations (using Roslyn source generators).

    By the way, .NET is also retiring the ability to use WinMD directly via runtime projection, in favor of code generation: https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT

  • ProjectReunion

    The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.

  • WinRT is not going anywhere. What more, it's usable from classic Win32 apps these days.

    https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion

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