Additional or Amended Functionality Provided in Managed C++
Programs coded in Managed C++ provide additional functionality of the .NET Framework and the CLR. Most notable of these is garbage collection, which relieves the programmer of manual memory management. The garbage collector (or GC) is handled by the CLR. Memory management is executed quite quickly, but for more performance critical applications, native, unmanaged code is most likely the preferred option.
Also, C++ has evolved much over time and most software written in the language is object oriented. Managed C++ and the use of classes and class based objects remains prevalent like in Visual C++. The only major change to this in Managed C++ is that the capabilities of multiple inheritance are not supported. This is because of a limitation of the CLR. A class managed under the CLR's garbage collector cannot inherit more than one class. This is explained further in other sections.
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