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What is Microsoft Inter-mediate Language (MSIL) code in .Net?

Learn: What is MSIL (Microsoft Inter-mediate Language) Code in .Net, how MSIL converts the code into equivalent common code, so that .net framework understands the code.
[Last updated : March 26, 2023]

There are many languages used in .NET Framework. For each language a different compiler is used for compiling the source codes. In .NET Framework’s each compiler converts source code into an intermediate code is known as Microsoft Inter-mediate language code.

The advantage of MSIL code is: it can be consumed by any other .NET compatible language. The MSIL code is common for all languages and is understandable only to .NET environment.

See, how MSIL code generates
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MSIL code is also known as CIL (Common Intermediate Language) code. Due to MSIL code .NET Framework achieves language inter-operability.

Here, Language inter-operability means one module of project is developed in c#, it can be consumed in VB.NET. Thus, .NET framework is also known as language independent.

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