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R. VillelaPro .NET 5 Custom Librarieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6391-4_1

1. .NET Platform

Roger Villela1  
(1)
Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 

This chapter provides an overview of .NET 5 (previously .NET Core) and describes the fundamental architectural and the engineering features that you should expect in any implementation of .NET 5 (regardless of hardware, operating system, or execution system).

Acronyms

The following acronyms are introduced in this chapter:

  • Base Class Library (BCL)

  • Common Intermediate Language (CIL)

  • Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)

  • Common Language Runtime (CLR)

  • Common Type System (CTS)

  • Framework Class Library (FCL) (Although not specific to the .NET Framework implementation, the term is used for the full ...

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