The Common Language Runtime is the platform for .NET applications that allow you to develop your application in any .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic 2005, etc.) and have them all run seamlessly on a single platform.
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Console, Windows, Web, and Web Services.
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The Framework specifies how .NET constructs intrinsic types, classes, interfaces, etc.
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The Framework Class Library provides a very large suite of predefined classes that you can use in building your application.
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This refers to "type safety"the ability of the compiler to ensure that the objects you create are of the expected type.
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Keywords are reserved for use by the language and cannot be used to identify objects or methods you create.
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Namespaces are used to ensure that identifiers are unique across libraries of classes.
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The job of the compiler is to turn your source code into MSIL.
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The Microsoft Intermediate Language is the native language for .NET and is compiled into an executable application by the JIT.
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The Just In Time compiler turns your MSIL code into an application in memory.
A.1.2. Exercise
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The instructions for creating this program are found in Chapter 1.
