Common Language Specification

Poll without page-refresh

Article on other languages:

	del.icio.us
	Digg
	Furl
	Reddit
	Rojo
	Add to OnlyWire

The Common Language Specification is a set of base rules to which any language targeting the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) should conform in order to interoperate with other CLS-compliant languages. The CLS rules define a subset of the Common Type System.

.NET Framework

Architecture

Base Class Library · Common Language Runtime · Code Access Security · Assembly · Metadata · COM Interop

Common Language
Infrastructure (CLI)

Common Language Infrastructure · Common Type System · Common Intermediate Language · Virtual Execution System

CLI Languages

Common¹	C# · Visual Basic .NET · C++/CLI (Managed) · J# · JScript .NET

Other²	A# · Boo · Oxygene · F# · IronLisp · IronPython · IronRuby · Nemerle · Phalanger · P# · Windows PowerShell

Components

ADO.NET (Entity Framework · Data Services) · ASP.NET (AJAX · MVC · Dynamic Data) · Language Integrated Query · CardSpace · ClickOnce · Communication Foundation · Dynamic Language Runtime · Forms · Presentation Foundation · Remoting · Workflow · XAML

Other implementations

Mono · Compact Framework (Xbox 360) · Micro Framework · Portable.NET · Silverlight · SSCLI

Comparisons

C# and Java · C# and Visual Basic .NET · Java and .NET platforms

Upcoming

"Acropolis" · "Jasper" · Parallel FX Library

¹ Languages that are or have been included with Visual Studio.
² Non-academic or research languages with relatively large user-bases.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Specification"

Categories: .NET framework

This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Giant Panda

Mercedes Car

This site monitored by SitePinger.net