September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
10h
English
Content preview from Programming PERL in the .NET Environment
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.NET Framework Overview
The .NET Framework consists of the CLR, the .NET Framework Class Library, the Common Language Specification (CLS), a number of .NET languages, and Visual Studio.NET. The overall architecture of the .NET Framework is depicted in Figure 1-3.
Figure 1-3. Overall block diagram of .NET Framework.
Common Language Runtime
A runtime provides services to executing programs. Traditionally, different programming environments have different runtimes. Examples of runtimes include the standard C library, MFC, the Visual Basic runtime, and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
The runtime environment provided by .NET, the CLR, manages the execution ...