What are the services provided by Common Language Infrastructure?

**ComPaCt** · 11-09-2009

Can anyone tell me what are the different services provided by the Common Language Infrastructure, I have gone through the book where I got very limited services, but I feel there may be number of other services provided by the CLI.

Thanks for you suggestion..

**Alejandro** · 11-09-2009

CLI provides 4 main services and those are as follows:

Common Language Runtime: CLR is considered to be the core component of .NET framework. Its primary responsibility is to convert the CIL/MSIL code into native machine language code. Methods and systems for allocating address space resources to resource requesting peripheral devices in an efficient manner. Resource request are gathered for enumerated peripheral devices host by a computer platform. Type Safety:It ensures that code cannot perform operations that are invalid for an object. Managed Code execution:Managed code execution also handles JIT compilation, handles exceptions, and confirms type safety and security issues. Side-by-side execution: provides an opportunity to execute multiple versions of an application or component on one computer.

**Mecurtis** · 11-09-2009

A map containing resource alignment requirements is built, and a virtual resource allocation map is computed based on aggregated resource requests and the alignment requirements. Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) enables an application program written in any of several commonly-used programming languages to be run on any operating system using a common runtime program rather than a language-specific one.

**Astro121** · 11-09-2009

It does make it possible for programmers to examine the implementation details of many .NET libraries and to create modified CLI versions. Microsoft provides the Shared Source CLI as a reference CLI implementation suitable for educational use. Common Language Infrastructure has been accepted as an open standard by ECMA, an international organization for the promotion of technology standards. CLI is designed to make it easier to develop programs that can be used as Web services.