Microsoft .NET framework and execution explained

 

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.NET Managed code / CLR / IL

• Software component that runs on Windows platform
  • Tools, components, and framework to speed up development
• Managed code is code (in CLI) that memory management, object lifetime, and the basic type-system, etc.
• CLI - The open specification by Microsoft for executable code and runtime environment that form the core of .NET
• CLR – Common Language Runtime
  • Execution engine interfacing .NET and OS
• IL – Intermediate Language  and metadata created by languages
  • C#
  • VB.NET
  • J#
  • Etc.

 

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