Chapter 32: Managed C++
previous chapter, we looked at the heart of Microsoft .NET: the common language runtime. A major goal of the common language runtime is to wipe away the boundaries we've been dealing with throughout the history of the Microsoft platform. Writing code to run on .NET means writing managed code that compiles down to Intermediate Language (IL) and is later compiled to native code. In this chapter, you'll learn what it takes to get code running under the common language runtime using Managed Extensions for C++.