Managed code means the code is compliant with the .NET specification and can be executed by the CLR. Not so difficult to understand.

That said, I also am amused by the phrase, more for what it implies about other code that can be written in .NET, notably C++. Unmanaged Code? Reckless Code? Dangerous Code?

>"Managed Code" - What exactly does that mean, Graig,. Do you know?
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>Is it like "Managed Reality"? =)
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>To your humble narrator it sounds like Microsoft Marketing Bait for the Redmond Shrimp Fest!
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>Come on, Graig: "Managed Code"? (I can't believe you ain't a snickering every time you hear that phrase)
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>That term is a technical air fern. A pet rock to make the NET hillbillies feel all warm and necessary inside.
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>It means anything. It means everything. It means nothing. Pure MVP gobbledygook.
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>Anytime one object communicates with another object it's COM.
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>Therefore, "Managed Code" is COM anyway you script it, unless, of couse, "Managed Code" projects are bi-polar and only talk to themselves and the "waking dream" shadows when the meds are timing out.
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>better security.
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>You need to read more than below the fold of the Microsoft Sponsored Pocket Protector Section in the Salt Lake City Gazette! (BTW - is Rocky still Mayor?).
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>Microsoft admitted it intentionally built in back doors (exploits) into most, if not all of it's products and services, including the OS, IIS and Hot Mail. They've admitted it. Those exploits are not accidents or the result of a fat-finger mistake.
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>The exploits are intentional. There are police state and industrial espionage considerations that Gates and Balmer the Palmer don't talk about when getting soft-shoed with "how zit hanging" questions from light on the toes Charlie Rose. You know this - at least you should. I understand that denial can be a wonderful thing when groping for that second basket of Redmond Shrimp - but so can a change of diet.:-)
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>Sometimes you have to travel down the rabbit hole.
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>Here's a short `n cool video (to the tune of "Low Rider") about social consciousness based on the 100th monkey syndrome studied by anthropologists. It has many messages - but most importantly it talks about how we don't really accept the artificial reality ("Managed Reality") conditioned by our zoo keepers. Underneath all the bovine excrement our keepers force us to wallow in, our subconscious knows the facts and the truth. Read the words as the tune swoons.
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>PS - I still love your tie. Don't be victimized by "Managed Reality".
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>Keep it wet!
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>PS : NET ain't the only tool, nor is it the most widely used. The world is a lot bigger than NET! (or is it NOT?)
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>>COM has nothing to do with "layered", It is about interoperability, allowing one application to interact with another or components.
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>>.NET also supports COM, but everything is moving towards managed code as it has fewer issues and better security. Microsoft is starting to move things in that direction. Much of the Visual Studio IDE has been rewritten using .NET, replacing the old COM-based tools.
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>>There have been some high-level technical exits from MS lately, but that happens in any business. There are still lots of VERY smart technical people there who are doing lots of innovative things. WPF, for example, moves UI to a whole new level that was impossible or very hard to accomplish before. WCF goes a long way to make it easier to handle multiple communication technologies in a similar way.
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>>>I really don't know what COM based means? Java Applets behave as COM. DOM is COM - and it's not dying. I've even heard there are multithreaded concurrent tasking DOM objects. What's a COM?
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>>>That no-mas COM based ruse is part of the Microsoft Strategic mumbo jumbo - there are a lot of COM based - technologies as well as layered technologies doing perfectly well. Low iodine nerd wanna-bees with pocket protectors say COM - but most of them don't know what it means.
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>>>IMO: COM is just another way of saying "layered". Win 7 is still using those old OCX progress bars and list views - right? Are those COM, or are they layers.
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>>>Rudder at the helm would not be enough - the engineers are gone - Some of them are writing CLRs for New Deli Boiler Platers - others are doing media. Microsoft traded her engineers for marketing and acquisition reps.
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>>>They should "open source" it (V-9). Microsoft doesn't have the talent pool they used to. They build X-Boxes and what was that cr*ppy iTune ripoff called - Google turned them down, Yahoo turned them down. MS is just bad joo-joo - nobody wants get on board with them. They're withering on the vine - suckling off the off shore off the rack service shtick until it runs dry. Microsoft is no longer an innovator - they are a pool of game show hosts and politicians.
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>>>Well the tie you have looks good - and you do to Craig! - but I couldn't help but notice - in one day - I saw 20 TV talking heads, including Robert Gibbs - all - wearing green ties and eggshell shirts! Clones with different masks on.
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