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I want to understand that the Visual C++ in visual studio 2010, 2012 is managed or unmanaged.

Simply i want to know is that a Visual C application developed in visual studio 2010 or 2012 will require .net framework or it will be a simple .exe file like Visual C 6.

Posted 7-May-13 19:05pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-May-13 1:08am

Incorrect question! "Simple .EXE" and "requres .NET" are not antonyms.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-05-07T19:16:00

First, please see my comment to the question.

I assume you want to get some information on the already compiled module (PE file), because finding out what kind of the project you are looking at from the source code is trivial.

Visual C++ allows to develop pure unmanaged executable modules, pure .NET assemblies (written entirely in C++/CLI) and mixed-mode projects. You can find out if managed code is used in a following way: write a .NET application which calls System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom and pass a name of your executable file (by "executable" I mean any PE file, not only *.EXE). This call will throw an exception of the file is not a valid .NET assembly.

Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1009fa28.aspx[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28programming%29[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable[^].

Read on C++/CLI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI[^],
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-372.htm[^],
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/C++CLIRationale.pdf[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xey702bw.aspx[^].

—SA