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Enter a keyword...   ...or choose a category. choose one... Communications Computer Industry Companies Computer Science Data Graphics Hardware Internet and Online Services Mobile Computing Multimedia Networks Operating Systems Programming Software Standards Types of Computers World Wide Web   Common Language Infrastructure Last modified: Tuesday, January 07, 2003  Created by Microsoft as the foundation of its .NET technology, the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an ECMA standard (ECMA-335) that allows applications to be written in a variety of high-level programming languages and executed in different system environments. Programming languages that conform to the CLI have access to the same base class library and are capable of being compiled into the same intermediate language (IL) and metadata. IL is then further compiled into native code particular to a specific architecture. Because of this intermediate step, applications do not have to be rewritten from scratch. Their IL only needs to be further compiled into a system's native code.   Standard ECMA-335: CLI This Standard defines the CLI. Technical Overview of the Common Language Runtime Microsoft document that describes the technical details of the CLI and compares them to the Java Virtual Machine. The Joy of Rotor Microsoft has released "Rotor," their shared-source version of the .NET Framework. The good, the bad, and the ugly of this million+ lines of code. Related Categories Programming Languages Related Terms .NET high-level language Shop for: Books - Jim Miller and Susann Ragsdale - The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard Products Release Date: October 01, 2003 Compare all matches: 2 Store Offers from $44-$52 Top Store Offers Amazon - 43.86 Amazon Marketplace - 52.08 more stores...

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