C++/CLI : Advantages over C#

Question

Is there any major advantage of managed C++/CLI over C#. Definitely not the syntax I suppose as the following code in C++/CLI is real ugly,

C++/CLI code:

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Answer 1

Being able to use native headers files directly is a huge advantage, but not the only one.

Stack semantics are so much better than anything C# has to offer for IDisposable management. C++/CLI has one uniform syntax for correctly managing variables which are IDisposable and those which aren't, both as local variables and as member fields. Comparison:

ref class MyClass
{
   FileStream fs;
}

vs

class MyClass : IDisposable
{
  FileStream fs;

  void IDisposable.Dispose() { Dispose(true); }
  ~MyClass() { Dispose(false); }

  public virtual void Dispose(bool disposing) { if (disposing) fs.Dispose(); }
}

Now which language is looking ugly?

Then there are templates, interior_ptr, #define, native DLL exports, pointer-to-member, and probably several other things I've forgotten.