[RESOLVED] What about the ATL future?

[steixeira]

Hi Sygnosys,

>>I did sincerely did not expect that ATL would provide all of the WS-* enhancements, just the one regarding Security.<<

The problem is that ATL Server would need so much work to be competitive with the managed frameworks, the VC++ teams has to ask itself: is it worth the expediture of resources to address just one of many issues? Or would it be wiser to spend those resources in another area of the product where we believe we can have a bigger impact on the success of our customers? We're choosing the latter route here, of course. We understand and regret that decisions like this can be painful for the customers invested in the technology, but I believe it's better to deliver the bad news honestly than for customers to not know where we stand.

>>Uppon reading your reply I com to the conclusion that VC++ consideres ATL a dead tecnology so please just make it official.<<

I did say we were likely to deprecate ATL Server in Orcas. That's pretty official if you ask me.

Sincerely,

Steve Teixeira
Group Program Manager
Visual C++