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Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework, Sixth Edition
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Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework, Sixth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1557 pages
40h 16m
English
Apress
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C H A P T E R  17

Processes, AppDomains, and Object Contexts

In Chapters 14 and 15, you examined the steps taken by the CLR to resolve the location of a referenced external assembly, as well as the role of .NET metadata. In this chapter, you’ll drill deeper into the details of how an assembly is hosted by the CLR and come to understand the relationship between processes, application domains, and object contexts.

In a nutshell, application domains (or simply AppDomains) are logical subdivisions within a given process that host a set of related .NET assemblies. As you will see, an AppDomain is further subdivided into contextual boundaries, which are used to group together like-minded .NET objects. Using the notion of context, the CLR is able ...

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