> I don't know enough about .net to answer the question - even if I did the answer probably depending on if you are doing something where .net has a saner syntax, or run of the mill code that looks almost identical in C++ as .net

I don't know enough about either C#/.net or C++ - I was merely speculating.

I know there are some web frameworks for C++, but I've never heard of any big websites being built with them. I am assuming that, even back then, .net provided a lot of modules for building websites, not only templating but also auth, email, managing statics, an ORM (I know they ended up rolling out their own, but maybe they used .net's in the very early stage), etc.