What is the process of creating a Windows API? | One Dev Question with Larry Osterman

Larry @osterman tells us how new APIs for #Windows10 are designed to avoid some of the issues of the past.

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All I really wanted was some kind of wrapper from Microsoft that would take the win32 common controls, GDI drawing operations and maybe the C# Winforms and just draw it with hardware accelerated direct2d. Instead we got WPF and WinRT

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oh, and I thought the process is this - put random words in a blender and name it whatever 3 come out, just observe the Hungarian notation.

[friggindoc]

Borland did win32 API better then microsoft