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In other words, does the .NET framework eventually make calls somewhere to get its work done? Or did Microsoft completely re-create all the functionality of the win32 library in their .NET framework.
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It is a mix. Obviously, things like winforms are largely wrappers around Win32 functionality (or a mix of both worlds), but WPF is a lot more managed (in terms of the actual control code; under the hood, as Mash notes, it may use DirectX for the rendering). Likewise, things like file/network access are (by necessity) wrappers around the OS objects, as are the unmanaged lock objects like
Mutex– but many other things are 100% managed.So it isn’t a simple answer.
(edit) Also – keep in mind that ‘.NET’ is a very vague term; Compact Framework, Micro Framework, Silverlight etc may have different, non-win32 implementations.