.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library
by Brad Abrams
Foreword
When I began my standards “career” back in August 2000, “ECMA” and “ISO” meant as much to me as the sequence of letters in the daily newspaper jumble. I hadn't a clue on how the standards process actually worked, from either a technical or a political perspective. Now, as I write this, I am chair of the ECMA committee that oversees the standardization of programming and scripting languages. In addition, I am convener of the task group within the committee that is responsible for the standardization of the CLI, on which, of course, the content of this book is based.
In 2000, Microsoft publicly introduced its .NET vision. A key component of this vision is the .NET Framework, which includes a set of class libraries and a virtual machine (“runtime ...
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