Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Rotor

As part of an effort to make some of the key technologies of the .NET Framework available as an open standard, Microsoft has worked with the ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) standardization organization to have standards for the C# language specification and a common language infrastructure (CLI), which represents the core of the .NET Framework. The shared source CLI, also popularly known as the Rotor project, provides a shared source implementation of the CLI and C# language specifications. More information on the exact licensing terms of the release is available at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx.

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