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Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5
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Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5

by Mark Michaelis
August 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
880 pages
18h 35m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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21. The Common Language Infrastructure

ONE OF THE FIRST ITEMS C# programmers encounter beyond the syntax is the context under which a C# program executes. This chapter discusses the underpinnings of how C# handles memory allocation and deallocation, type checking, interoperability with other languages, cross-platform execution, and support for programming metadata. In other words, this chapter investigates the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) on which C# relies both at compile time and during execution. It covers the execution engine that governs a C# program at runtime and how C# fits into a broader set of languages that are governed by the same execution engine. Because of C#’s close ties with this infrastructure, most of the features that ...

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