What does mscorlib stand for

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mscorlib is definitely one of  net base class libraries and every program in C  depends on it  but what does it stand for   In the ECMA standard for the C  Language Specification the word is mentioned 4 times and none of them referring to what it means

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Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library    See http   www danielmoth com Blog mscorlibdll aspx and What does   39 Cor  39  stand for

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It stands for      Microsoft s Common Object Runtime Library   and it is the primary assembly for the Framework Common Library   It contains the following namespaces    System  System Collections  System Configuration Assemblies  System Diagnostics  System Diagnostics SymbolStore  System Globalization  System IO  System IO IsolatedStorage  System Reflection  System Reflection Emit  System Resources  System Runtime CompilerServices  System Runtime InteropServices  System Runtime InteropServices Expando  System Runtime Remoting  System Runtime Remoting Activation  System Runtime Remoting Channels  System Runtime Remoting Contexts  System Runtime Remoting Lifetime  System Runtime Remoting Messaging  System Runtime Remoting Metadata  System Runtime Remoting Metadata W3cXsd2001  System Runtime Remoting Proxies  System Runtime Remoting Services  System Runtime Serialization  System Runtime Serialization Formatters  System Runtime Serialization Formatters Binary  System Security  System Security Cryptography  System Security Cryptography X509Certificates  System Security Permissions  System Security Policy  System Security Principal  System Text  System Threading  Microsoft Win32    Interesting info about MSCorlib    The  NET 2 0 assembly will reference and use the 2 0 mscorlib The  NET 1 1 assembly will reference the 1 1 mscorlib but will use the 2 0 mscorlib at runtime  due to hard-coded version redirects in theruntime itself  In GAC there is only one version of mscorlib  you dont find 1 1 version on GAC even if you have 1 1 framework installed on your machine  It would be good if somebody can explain why MSCorlib 2 0 alone is in GAC whereas 1 x version live inside framework folder Is it possible to force a different runtime to be loaded by the application by making a config setting in your app   web config  you won   t be able to choose the CLR version by settings in the ConfigurationFile     at that point  a CLR will already be running  and there can only be one per process  Immediately after the CLR is chosen the MSCorlib appropriate for that CLR is loaded

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Microsoft Core Library  ie they are at the heart of everything    There is a more  massaged  explanation you may prefer    When Microsoft first started working on the  NET Framework  MSCorLib dll was an acronym for Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library  Once ECMA started to standardize the CLR and parts of the FCL  MSCorLib dll officially became the acronym for Multilanguage Standard Common Object Runtime Library    From http   weblogs asp net mreynolds archive 2004 01 31 65551 aspx  Around 1999  to my personal memory   Net was known as  COOL   so I am a little suspicious of this derivation  I never heard it called  COR   which is a silly-sounding name to a native English speaker

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