What is clr.dll on .Net framework and what does it do?

c# .net garbage-collection clr profiler
user2545071 picture user2545071 · Oct 31, 2013 · Viewed 29.2k times · Source

I use profiling tools on VS2012 and see,that clr.dll works a lot of time. Is it Garbage Collection? What clr.dll can do? Please tell me. Thank you!

Answer

ElGavilan picture ElGavilan · Oct 31, 2013

Common Language Runtime. It's basically the engine for .NET

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