ECMA Common Language Infrastructure and C# Standards Specifications

The ECMA (www.ecma.ch) Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and C# standards specifications are extremely useful sources of detailed information. It is highly recommended that you download a copy of these specifications and refer to them as you work with the Shared Source CLI implementation.

The ECMA-334 C# Specification (third edition) can be found at: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm

The ECMA-334 CLI Specification (third edition) can be found at: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm

The documents you can download from the ECMA site are described in the following table:

File	Description
Ecma-334.pdf	Standard ECMA-334 C# Language Specification (third edition). Contains C# 2.0 language updates. Available in PDF format.
Ecma-335.pdf	Standard ECMA-335 Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). Contains CLR version 2.0 updates. Partitions I - VI Available in PDF format.
	Partition	Description
	Partition I	Architecture
	Partition II	Metadata Definition and Semantics
	Partition III	CIL Instruction Set
	Partition IV	Profiles and Libraries
	Partition V	Debug Interchange Format
	Partition VI	Annexes
ECMA-335.zip	XML file specifying the standardized class libraries.