Goals of the Standard and of This Book


The goal of any standard is to set out what must be done to comply with the standard, not to tell you how to implement it. The information makes it possible to guarantee that if you write a program and compile it on one implementation of the VES, it will also run on another implementation, unless the program violates the rules. It specifies both what is needed for portability and the limits of portability. It also specifies the rules for creating a Virtual Execution System (VES).

It was not a goal of this standard to describe why decisions were made. However, many of the annotations in this book attempt to provide some of that context, to make the system more coherent.

Another important part of the International Standard is an implementation of a set of libraries that work on all compliant implementations and are language-independent, called the Base Class Libraries. These libraries are described in detail in companion volumes to this one, entitled the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference.



The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard (Microsoft. NET Development Series)
The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard (Microsoft. NET Development Series)
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Year: 2002
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