Understanding .NET components
.NET is made up of several pieces, which are as follows:
- Language compilers: These turn your source code written with languages such as C#, F#, and Visual Basic into intermediate language (IL) code stored in assemblies. With C# 6.0 and later, Microsoft switched to an open source rewritten compiler known as Roslyn that is also used by Visual Basic.
More Information: You can read more about Roslyn at the following link: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
- Common Language Runtime (CoreCLR): This runtime loads assemblies, compiles the IL code stored in them into native code instructions for your computer's CPU, and executes the code within an environment that manages resources such as threads and memory.
- Base Class Libraries (BCLs) of assemblies in NuGet packages (CoreFX): These are prebuilt assemblies of types packaged and distributed using NuGet for performing common tasks when building applications...