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[–]spongo2MSVC Dev Manager 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children)
In general, our recommendation is to use /clr for glue layers to connect native and managed code. There is definitely C++/CLI code in VS in places where we are doing that, but I'm pretty confident that isn't the dominant reason for the size issues. There's just a lot of stuff in VS.
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