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What is the difference between managed, unmanaged, and native code?

Is unmanaged code the same as native code? What is the difference?

Duplicate: Difference between native and managed code?

Solution

  • Managed code is code that runs under a virtual machine, in other words its memory is "managed" by another program ( C# for example ).

    Unmanaged code runs on the underlying architecture without requiring a virtual machine, but it may require a runtime library. ( C for example )

    Further Reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_code

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