Windows 2000 End-Of-Support

We’ve made the decision to end official support for Windows 2000 effective immediately as this operating system has reached the end of its livecycle and is no longer being supported by Microsoft.

Please note that there are no Windows 2000 specific hacks in the Quick PDF Library code base, so we will not be “removing” support as such. All this decision really means in real-terms is that Windows 2000 is no longer listed as a supported operating system on our website.

A quick tip for anyone who is going to continue developing applications for Windows 2000 is that if you’re using Visual Studio 2010 with runtime 10.0 this may cause issues on Windows 2000. Specifically, this error message:

“The procedure entry point EncodePointer could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.DLL”

Head on back to Visual Studio 2008 with runtime 9.0 or earlier and this error message will disappear.

Sayonara Windows 2000, it was nice knowing you.