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The CLR (Common Language Runtime)

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The CLR (Common Language Runtime)

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The CLR is the virtual machine that runs .NET code. The C# compiler does not produce machine code: it produces IL (Intermediate Language, also called CIL or MSIL) plus metadata describing every type and member, packaged in an assembly (.dll…

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