# Common Language Infrastructure
## CLI
- Language-neutral platform
# Common Language Runtime
## CLR
- Virtual Execution System
- VES
- Defined by CLI
- JIT managed code into machine instructions
- Execution engine
- VM
- [[Language Binding#Virtual Machines]]
- Services
- Memory management
- Type safety
- Exception handling
- Garbage collection
- Security
- Thread management
# Common Intermediate Language
## CIL
- Intermediate language for CLI
- Run by CLR
- Object-oriented, stack-based bytecode
# Assemblies
- Compiled CLI code
- Portable executable (PE)
- DLL, EXE
![[cli-infrastructure.png]]
