Summary

Understanding the differences between managed and unmanaged code will allow you to decide how to migrate your legacy applications to the .NET Framework as well as see what is best to leave as legacy unmanaged C++ code. With the Visual C++ .NET compiler, you have the option of deciding which code is best implemented in the managed environment and what code is best left unmodified. Once you decide what code should be rewritten, you can rewrite it in stages, without taking on a rewrite of the entire application.