I tried to switch from Delphi to Visual C++ around the same time, which made me appreciate even more how easy it was to build a GUI app with Delphi as opposed to the way VC++ did it (having a barebones visual designer and other than that forcing you to use all the gnarly APIs directly), how straightforward Object Pascal was compared to C++, and how much faster the compiler was, and decided to just stick with Delphi for the time being. The later .NET IDEs improved the usability quite a bit (thanks Anders Hejlsberg!), but those were for .NET, they didn't generate native code.
They do generate native code at installation time via the NGEN tool, and Managed C++ (later C++/CLI) can created mixed mode Assemblies, where native code is embedded on the file, which is the reason why mixed mode Assemblies can't be considered safe from CLR point of view.
