The CLR as a COM Component
The uses of MSCOREE.DLL just described all take advantage of the CLR implicitly. It is also possible to use the CLR explicitly from unmanaged programs. When you use the CLR explicitly, your unmanaged program has considerably more control over how the CLR is configured within the process. To facilitate this, the CLR exposes a family of COM-based hosting interfaces that can be accessed from any COM-compatible environment. The most critical of these interfaces is ICorRuntimeHost.
ICorRuntimeHost is the primary hosting interface of the CLR. This interface allows programs to manage the AppDomains of the CLR as well as control how OS threads and fibers interact with the CLR. The simplest way to acquire an ICorRuntimeHost ...
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