Microsoft office GUI

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Hello everybody

what is the library or framework that is used to create the Graphical User Interface of Microsoft Office programs

thanks

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the GUIs are very good looking and smooth in using so I'm wondering what is used to create them,

Posted 3-Feb-19 4:34am

Alhusain Salam

Updated 3-Feb-19 4:42am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-03T04:43:00

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It's all written in C++
https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-Microsoft-Office-is-still-written-in-C++[^] - look at the top answer, and contact him if you want more details - he's a dev manager at MS[^] so he should know.

Posted 3-Feb-19 4:43am

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Maciej Los 3-Feb-19 11:39am

5ed!

Rick York 3-Feb-19 12:13pm

That is far from current as it was posted in 2011. Things can change a lot in that time.

OriginalGriff 3-Feb-19 12:18pm

As he said then, they have a massive investment in the C++ codebase, they aren't going to throw it all away to move to C#.
Heck if they had, they could have fixed some bugs :laugh:

Rick York 3-Feb-19 13:04pm

Knowing them, they would likely introduce many more new bugs than they fix.

Alhusain Salam 4-Feb-19 1:14am

thanks

OriginalGriff 4-Feb-19 2:17am

You're welcome!