#summary About the Common Intermediate Language (CIL or MSIL)
#labels Glossary

= Common Intermediate Language =

The Common Intermediate Language (CIL) which was previously known as the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) is the Common Language Runtime (CLR) byte-code used by the Microsoft .NET framework.

== For more information ==

http://dotnet.di.unipi.it/EcmaSpec/PartitionIII/index.html