High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! C++/CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) is Microsoft`s language specification intended to supersede Managed Extensions for C++. It is a complete revision that aims to simplify the older Managed C++ syntax (that is now deprecated). C++/CLI is standardized by Ecma as ECMA-372. It is currently available only in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 (also included in the Express Editions).