>>>>Much harder to code in C++ .Net as opposed to C#. More support for C#. Since they use the same runtime, why not go with C#?
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>>>>>i guess it can help sometime, why is scary??
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>>>What about managing pointers and stuff like this? Better to do in C++ than in C#.
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>>The lack of pointers (unless you really, really want to use them, which C# allows you to) and not having to clean up resources manually is one of the big selling points of C#. OK, that's two selling points ;-)
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>Right, the point is that there still may be applications for C++.

Sure, tons of them. But I bet there aren't many being written for .NET. Microsoft made it abundantly clear from the beginning that C# was the preferred C dialect for .NET. They even tagged C++.NET code with the somewhat insulting phrase "unmanaged code."