What is a CLR class?

Question

I googled CLR and found out what it is from wikipedia, but I wanted to know what a CLR class or more specifically a CLR entity type is (especially in ASP.NET).

Answer 1

CLR is not class. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is the virtual machine component of Microsoft's .NET framework . This runtime environment in .NET Framework is known as Common Language Runtime (CLR).

image from wiki which explain what clr can do

CLR provides the following benefits for developers:

• Vastly simplified development.
• Seamless integration of code written in various languages.
• Evidence-based security with code identity.
• Assembly-based deployment that eliminates DLL Hell.
• Side-by-side versioning of reusable components.
• Code reuse through implementation inheritance.
• Automatic object lifetime management.
• Code access security.
• Cross Language Integration.
• Self describing objects.

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