C# and the CLR

Abstract

As mentioned in the previous chapter, managed applications and native applications have ma differences, mainly because managed applications run inside the Microsoft CLR. The CLR is a Virtual Execution System (VES) that implements the CLI. The CLR provides many useful facilities to managed applications, including a highly tuned GC for memory management, a code access security layer, and a rich self-describing type system, among others. In this chapter, I’ll show you how the CLR compiles, packages, and executes C# programs.