November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 16m
English
Figure 1.1 shows an extremely simplified view of the architecture and relationships between elements of the .NET Framework. The CLR is the base on which all of the .NET Framework's other facilities are built. In particular, the CLR is responsible for addressing most of the “programming in the small” issues that have been identified with developing distributed systems. On top of the CLR is a Base Framework, a set of class libraries that can be used and shared by any .NET-aware language. The CLR and fundamental parts of the Base Framework are collectively known as the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI); the CLI has been standardized by ECMA.[2]
[2] See http://www.ecma.ch/.
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