Enhancing Developer Productivity
An important design goal of the Framework Class Library is to enhance developer productivity.
It may surprise you to know that the class library primarily targets the goal of enhanced productivity not by introducing new functionality but by repackaging functionality in an object-oriented way. That is to say that, while the Framework Class Library does introduce some new features, much of the functionality exposed by the namespaces was previously available to us through the Win32 API, ActiveX controls, COM-based DLLs, and so on. Now, however, it is wrapped in a way that allows us to program at an abstracted level where we don't have to deal with the complexities and granular pieces of data required by the Win32 ...
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