Years ago, when I was just a shy junior programmer, I had a dream. I dreamt of a world in which I had no need to figure out the right messages for handling in my Windows applications. Moreover, I didn’t want to research the best way to export functions from Visual C++ to accommodate incoming calls from Visual Basic (VB) applications. As a first-year student at the Windows university, I found particularly hostile the different programming models that the various Windows programming tools we...