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For years to come, Windows developers will be straddling the boundary between managed code, which runs in the .Net Common Language Runtime, and unmanaged 32-bit Windows and COM codes, which do not. Even if all VB (Visual Basic) and C++ applications were magically converted to VB Net and Managed Extensions for C++, there would still be thousands of unmanaged libraries and components with which to contend. A recent search of Component-- Source.com, for example, turned up 670 ActiveX components versus only 84 .Net components -few of which are among the most popular items.
For the component vendors, it's not just translation from C++ to C# that's holding up the show. The new generation of.Net components must be redone to exploit features...