Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

The Common Language Runtime

As its name implies, the Common Language Runtime provides an infrastructure that is common to all.NET languages. This infrastructure is responsible for taking control of an application’s execution and manages tasks such as memory management, access to system resources, security services, and so on. This kind of common infrastructure bridges the gap that exists between different Win32 programming languages because all .NET languages have the same possibilities. Moreover, the CLR enables applications to run inside a managed environment. The word managed is fundamental in the .NET development, as explained in the next section.

Writing Managed Code

When talking about Visual Basic 2015 development and, more generally, ...