Common Language Specification

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

v • d • e .NET Framework Architecture Base Class Library · Common Language Runtime · Code Access Security · Assembly · Metadata Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) · 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 Managed code frameworks Presentation · Communication · Workflow Components ADO.NET (Entity Framework · Data Services) · ASP.NET (AJAX · MVC · Dynamic Data) · Remoting · Language Integrated Query · Windows CardSpace · Windows Forms · XAML · ClickOnce · Dynamic Language Runtime · Parallel FX Library (PLINQ · TPL) 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" 1 Languages that are or have been included with Visual Studio. 2 Non-academic or research languages with relatively large user-bases.