What Is the Common Language Runtime?
The .NET Framework runtime environment is known as the common language runtime, or CLR. All .NET applications are executed by the CLR, which provides memory management and manages the overall execution of the application. Any code written that executes within the CLR is known as managed code. Therefore, all .NET Framework code is managed because it executes within the CLR.
Having a managed execution environment has many benefits, including cross-language integration, cross-language exception handling, better security, versioning and deployment, simple component interaction, and debugging.
The CLR provides another benefit for developers: a common runtime base that all .NET languages are based on. This allows ...
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