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I remember watching an interview (on Channel9, probably), that mentioned that Visual C++ had code in it dating back to the 80s.

Props to MS for eating its own dog food if they rewrote everything for .NET

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I didn't say they rewrote everything for .NET. There is managed C++ which uses the CLR while also support native C++ code. So they could use code written in the 80's with managed C++.

I seriously doubt they rewrote Visual Studio to be completely managed. That would be incredibly stupid for more than one reason.

But you did authoritatively claim that nearly all of Visual Studio is managed. The conservatism of Visual C++ alone makes me doubt that.

I wrote sloppily. I meant the GUI when I referred to Visual Studio, and not all the compilers, linkers, utilities, etc. I apologize.

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