Saturday 1 March 2014

What is Common Language Runtime (CLR) in .NET?

Common Language Runtime or CLR is responsible for executing your application code and the code running under the control of CLR is also called managed code.

Any application written in any language of .Net framework will never directly compiled to machine understood code instead the compiler converts the code into a special language called MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) and then CLR compile MSIL into platform-specific code.
So only the methods that are actually called during execution are compiled.

So in short, the .NET Framework understands only one language that is MSIL.

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