January 2003
Beginner
696 pages
16h 38m
English
The CLS describes the concrete guidelines that make a .NET language compliant with the common language runtime. That doesn't mean a .NET language can't have language-specific features, but it does indicate that to be considered a .NET language, the language must comply with the set of requirements set forth in the CLS. All features added to a .NET language and that aren't part of the CLS won't be exposed to other .NET languages at runtime.
If your code is fully CLS compliant, it's guaranteed to interoperate with all other components written in any .NET language. Certain languages, such as C#, attempt to accommodate developers moving from C and C++ with the similarity of their syntaxes. Because C# ...
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