Win32 API future ...?

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Originally posted by RussG1
Visual Studio .NET is still Visual Studio. It still has Visual C++, MFC, Win32 API, etc, but it also allows you to program using Managed C++, C#, etc.

I know that, but I looked at a book of .NET and one of the things that I found was that the syntax is different(slightly). For the main function, it's something like this.....

int _main()
{
   return 0;
}

What's with the little dash in the front? One of the things that bug me is why can't they make the syntax look as close as possible to previous languages, so as not to make the learning curve so high? I'm not a professional programmer, hence the angst over the whole .NET thing and stuff.