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Standard Libraries (CLI)

Standard libraries of C#, the .NET Framework and Core, and related projects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 10, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Standard Libraries are a set of standard libraries included in the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) in order to encapsulate many common functions, such as file reading and writing, XML document manipulation, exception handling, application globalization, network communication, threading, and reflection, which makes the programmer's job easier. It is much larger in scope than standard libraries for most other languages, including C++, and is comparable in scope and coverage to the standard libraries of Java.

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“Standard Libraries (CLI)” enters the record as standard libraries of C#, the .NET Framework and Core, and related projects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Standard, Libraries and libraries can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Standard Libraries (CLI)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.