On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Vincent Povirk madewokherd@gmail.com wrote:
Well, it'll probably just mean we render the brush incorrectly, and the program goes on with what it was doing.
It's theoretically possible for a program to break in a case where winforms currently catches the exception in .NET (instead drawing the famous red X) but will instead move on and break in a worse way than rendering incorrectly. That's not a likely case, but my understanding is that this is the rationale for not allowing new features during code freeze.
Just to be clear: without this patch (or a real fix), .net apps that turn on theming crash immediately.
I suppose Alexandre's thinking is that if users are going to load native .net, they may as well also load native gdiplus, at least for now. - Dan