Well I'm a long way from being an expert programmer, took me forever to get my awesome text adventure compiled and runing on the 360 but I gather that the difference and trouble between C++ & Managed C++ / C# is what is accessed from the OS core files, how things are executed and what level of hardware access programs have. From what I've gathered instead of saying "Hey hard drive, can you pass me that file?", it has to say "Hey .net, could you please ask the hard drive to pass me that file?" because .net is the only one with permissions to access the hardware so most of the operational code has to be rewritten to add that extra step

Mind you I could be way off but it sounds pretty convincing eh?

It's not an issue of "language" used it's an issue of "managed code" vs "non-managed code", ScummVM is written in non-managed code while WP7 only support managed code.

You could go from non-managed to managed but it would require a serious rewrite of most of the code, not to mention a ridiculous amount of extra work to keep the managed version in sync with the official one.

That's what I figured, which is why I wondered about Aliasalpha's use of "C#" rather than ".NET".

I guess that was because the very first SDK for WP7 only supported C#, it's only recently that support for VB.Net was added.

With .NET you could "theoretically" use any .NET compliant language (F#, Managed C++), but practically you need to have compiler supporting the source language and the target framework. (Which for WP7 is not really .NET but rather a "spiced-up" Silverlight)

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Okay okay, I'm not a programmer, I'm a n00bgrammer, I admit it

Hey, I just figured you might know something I didn't. Even though I'm a programmer by trade, I'm no .NET expert. In fact, most of my daily work is limited to MSSQL, and I only recently began a .NET certification process (which sucks mightily, I might add).