Common Language Runtime

Common Language Runtime (CLR) manages the execution of code and provides different services like Garbage collection and support for Base Class Libraries etc. The main constituents of CLR are described below

The common Language Runtime (CLR) a rich set of features for cross-language development and deployment. CLR supports both Object Oriented Languages as well as procedural languages. CLR provides security garbage collection cross language exception handling cross language inheritance and so on.

The Common Type System support both Object Oriented Programming languages as well as procedural languages. Basically CTS provides rich type system that is intended to support wide range of languages.

CLS (Common Language Specification) defines a subset of Common Type System which all language compilers targeting CLR must adhere to. CLS is a subset of CTS.

All compilers under .NET will generate Intermediate Language no matter what language is used to develop an application. In fact CLR will not be aware of the language used to develop an application. All language compilers will generate a uniform common language called Intermediate Language. For this reason IL can be called as The language of CLR A platform for cross language development.

Common Language Runtime

Common Language Runtime (CLR) manages the execution of code and provides different services like Garbage collection and support for Base Class Libraries etc. The main constituents of CLR are described below

The common Language Runtime (CLR) a rich set of features for cross-language development and deployment. CLR supports both Object Oriented Languages as well as procedural languages. CLR provides security garbage collection cross language exception handling cross language inheritance and so on.

The Common Type System support both Object Oriented Programming languages as well as procedural languages. Basically CTS provides rich type system that is intended to support wide range of languages.

CLS (Common Language Specification) defines a subset of Common Type System which all language compilers targeting CLR must adhere to. CLS is a subset of CTS.

All compilers under .NET will generate Intermediate Language no matter what language is used to develop an application. In fact CLR will not be aware of the language used to develop an application. All language compilers will generate a uniform common language called Intermediate Language. For this reason IL can be called as The language of CLR A platform for cross language development.

CLR Common Language Runtime. The CLR is a set of standard resources that (in theory) any .NET program can take advantage of regardless of programming language.

CTS Common Type System. This is the range of types that the .NET runtime understands and therefore that .NET applications can use. However note that not all .NET languages will support all the types in the CTS. The CTS is a superset of the CLS.

CLS Common Language Specification. This is a subset of the CTS which all .NET languages are expected to support. The idea is that any program which uses CLS-compliant types can interoperate with any .NET program written in any language.