To be honest, I wouldn't use VC++ to write anything more than a little .NET if you paid me. It's too much like banging your head against a brick wall for my liking.

It's ok to do managed wrappers for native code of course, but this has problems as I've said before.

It seems what's happening, certainly from what I can draw from this forum, is what I suspected might happen : that newbie C++ people are trying to learn C++/CLR and getting hideously confused between managed and native code. You really need to understand what's going on behind the scenes to be able to make best use of it. And to do that you have to know native C++ before mixing up the issues with C++/CLR.

And I hate the syntax.

These days I stick to C# for managed and C++ for native : writing COM interfaces where necessary.

I'll get off my soapbox now.

Darwen.