C++/CLI and .NET

I believe that C++/CLI will be a good step in the direction of making .NET a more popular development platform. Porting of existing software was somehow difficult by using the old C++ managed extensions for .NET. I can not claim experience in using managed extensions as I do all of my .NET development using C# and that I did not like those extensions. C# is a .NET language not like C++ which is the most powerful programming language available. Myself I feel more excited by the new version of .NET and Visual Studio because I will be able to switch to use C++ for .NET development as in native development.