The Common Language Runtime (CLR) provides a solid foundation for developers to build various types of applications. Whether you're writing an ASP.NET application, a Windows Forms application, a Web Service, a Mobile code application, a distributed application, or an application that combines several of these application models, the CLR provides the following benefits for application 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
• Self describing objects