Chapter 1

1. The first version of the C# language, 1.0, was released in 2002, bundled with .NET Framework 1.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2002. The current version of the language, at the time of writing this book, is C# 8.
2. The CLI is a specification that describes how a runtime environment can be used on different computer platforms without being rewritten for specific architectures. The CLI describes four major components: The Common Type System (CTS), the Common Language Specification (CLS), the Virtual Execution System (VES), and the metadata of a program's structure and content.
3. The CIL is a platform-neutral intermediate language that represents the intermediate language binary instruction set defined by the CLI. When you compile your program's source code, the compiler translates it into the CIL bytecode and produces a CLI assembly. When the CLI assembly is executed, the bytecode is passed through the Just-In-Time compiler to generate native code, which is then...