Define the roles of CLR

Question

Define the roles of CLR in .NET Framework and also explain the responsibilities?

Answer 1

CLR offers an environment to perform .NET applications on target machines. CLR is a common runtime environment for every .NET code irrespective of the programming language, as the compilers of individual language in .NET Framework change every source code into a common language known as MSIL or IL (i.e. Intermediate Language).

CLR also offers a variety of services to perform procedures, like memory management service and security services. CLR carry out a range of tasks to run the execution procedure of .NET applications.

Responsibilities of CLR are as follows:

• Code Access Security
• Automatic memory management
• Code verification
• Garbage Collection
• JIT compilation of .NET code