July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Content preview from Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Common Language Specification
One of the most important features of the .NET Framework is the CLR, which offers a common infrastructure for various .NET languages. You might also remember from Chapter 1, “Introducing .NET 2015,” that all .NET compilers produce Intermediate Language (IL) code. Because of this, .NET languages can interoperate: An assembly produced with Visual Basic can be used by an application written in Visual C#, and vice versa. But different languages have, of course, different characteristics; so if developers use specific features of a language, the risk is that another language cannot use that produced assembly because they might encounter several errors. This can occur when companies produce reusable components, such as ...