CSA ISO/IEC 23271:2013

Foreword
I.1 Scope
I.2 Conformance
I.3 Normative references
I.4 Conventions
I.5 Terms and definitions
I.6 Overview of the Common Language Infrastructure
I.7 Common Language Specification
I.8 Common Type System
I.9 Metadata
I.10 Name and type rules for the Common Language
      Specification
I.11 Collected Common Language Specification rules
I.12 Virtual Execution System
II.1 Introduction
II.2 Overview
II.3 Validation and verification
II.4 Introductory examples
II.5 General syntax
II.6 Assemblies, manifests and modules
II.7 Types and signatures
II.8 Visibility, accessibility and hiding
II.9 Generics
II.10 Defining types
II.11 Semantics of classes
II.12 Semantics of interfaces
II.13 Semantics of value types
II.14 Semantics of special types
II.15 Defining, referencing, and calling methods
II.16 Defining and referencing fields
II.17 Defining properties
II.18 Defining events
II.19 Exception handling
II.20 Declarative security
II.21 Custom attributes
II.22 Metadata logical format: tables
II.23 Metadata logical format: other structures
II.24 Metadata physical layout
II.25 File format extensions to PE
III.1 Introduction
III.2 Prefixes to instructions
III.3 Base instructions
III.4 Object model instructions
IV.1 Overview
IV.2 Libraries and Profiles
IV.3 The Standard Profiles
IV.4 Kernel Profile feature requirements
IV.5 The standard libraries
IV.6 Implementation- specific modifications to the system
      libraries
IV.7 The XML specification
V.1 Portable CILDB files
VI Annex A - Introduction
VI Annex B - Sample programs
VI Annex C - CIL assembler implementation
VI Annex D - Class library design guidelines
VI Annex E - Portability considerations
VI Annex F - Imprecise faults
VI Annex G - Parallel library
Index

Specifies the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) in which applications written in multiple high-level languages can be executed in different system environments without the need to rewrite those applications to take into consideration the unique characteristics of those environments.