Reversing : The Hacker's Guide to Reverse Engineering

Figure 12.2 Relationship between the common language runtime, IL, and the various
.NET programming languages.

.NET Framework

Common Language Runtime (CLR)

Just In Time Compiler

(JIT)

Visual Basic

.NET Compiler

(vbc.exe)

C# Compiler

(csc.exe)

Managed C++

Compiler

(cl.exe /CLR)

J# Compiler

(vjc.exe)

.NET Class Library

Operating System

Visual Basic .NET

Source Code C# Source Code

Managed C++

Source Code J# Source Code

Intermediate

Language (IL)

Executable

Garbage

Collector

Managed Code Verifier

Metadata

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