Managed and Unmanaged Code

[Diablicolic]

Ok, Visual Studio --> Managed Code

How do people build applications with unmanaged code? And wouldnt that be better than requiring the other person to have the .NET, 6, or whatever framework?

 

[Nerseus]

Visual Studio is just a tool to write code. The language C++ is the only one that currently supports unmanaged code. You can also program C++ to use managed code.

Better is relative - and subject to opinion. If you program C++ you have a choice - use the managed extensions which provide a LOT of code and functionality (garbage collection, for instance) or unmanaged. Im no C++ expert but thats the basics

Once upon a time, people thought the same thing about Visual Basic. You had to have a 3 meg, then 6 meg, then 8 (or 12 meg) DLL to interpret the VB p-code. But people got over that fear just as they will about the .NET framework (which is a required install for all apps that use it). Its about 20 meg but a one time install (save upgrades/updates). For clients its not such a big deal. If youre writing software to sell, its probably a bigger deal.

-Nerseus