CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET [aPress]
] Jason Bock Review By Peter A. Bromberg, Ph.D. Printer - Friendly Version CIL (or Common Intermediate Language) is the real “official language” of the .NET platform. It’s what your VB, C#,COBOL, Perl or other .NET compliant compiler generates in your assemblies when you hit the “Build” (or Ctrl-Shift B) button. It’s what the Common Language Runtime JITs into executable code at runtime. And most importantly, it’s the “glue” that holds the entire Common Language Infrastructure together….