
The Microsoft .NET Framework • Chapter 2 63
ReadIN = ReadLine()
WriteLine(ReadIN)
End Sub
The console would print This is a line! with a carriage return at the end
automatically, giving us one line to write whatever we want.After a carriage
return is detected, what we wrote is stored within the variable ReadIN and then
displayed via WriteLine.
Microsoft Intermediate Language
Once your assembly is in managed code, the CLR in turn translates the code to
the MSIL. MSIL is a type of bytecode that gives .NET developers the necessary
portability, but it is also key to the system’s interoperability, since it provides the
JIT compiler with the information it needs ...