Runtime Facilities

The BCL provides classes that can control runtime behavior. The canonical examples are the classes that control the garbage collector and those that provide strong and weak reference support.

For more information, see the System namespace.

Important types in other namespaces include System.Runtime. InteropServices.GCHandle.

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