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Opened: 11/15/2008 2:02:09 AM
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What's the future of C++/CLI. From now it is a second class .NET language. It has no WPF direct support, etc...
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Visual Studio 2010 CTP
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Windows Server 2008
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English
Problem Statement
Is C++/CLI abandoned? What will be the future of the language?
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We need a clean answer about the future of C++/CLI.
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Posted by Microsoft on 12/4/2008 at 12:28 PM
We will continue investing in C++/CLI to enable developers to expose native C++ assets to the managed world and vice versa. We believe that pure .NET development is done best using a .NET focused language such as C# or VB. Investing in C++/CLI will be mainly in the native-managed interop areas.

Thanks,
Ayman Shoukry
Visual C++ Team
Posted by Pavel Minaev [MSFT] on 11/15/2008 at 12:31 PM
IMO, it was second-class from the very beginning (e.g. it didn't support ASP.NET, etc). It's still a great tool to integrate native libs into managed apps, and that seems to be its primary niche.
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