Managed and Unmanaged Code

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Diablicolic

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Ok, Visual Studio --> Managed Code

How do people build applications with unmanaged code? And wouldn't that be better than requiring the other person to have the .NET, 6, or whatever framework?
 
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. I'm no C++ expert but that's 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). It's about 20 meg but a one time install (save upgrades/updates). For clients it's not such a big deal. If you're writing software to sell, it's probably a bigger deal.

-Nerseus
 
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