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Question

I just had a quick phone interview. The interviewer asked me a few questions like:

• How does C# work?
• What is the CLR and what does it do?
• What is C# code converted to?

Other than the CLR question (for which I gave a very vague answer), I didn't know the answers. There were a few others related to .NET that I don't remember, but I didn't know the answers to those either.

I'll admit that my knowledge is more high-level, but I feel like I have a basic grasp of how .NET works. Either way, I got a second interview, but he said I "need to brush up on how .NET works" before my next interview.

So...I'm not exactly sure how to do that...any advice?

I guess I should also mention that I've been out of college for 2 years, and I've been working professionally since then building ASP.NET web applications. Before that, I had no .NET experience.

Answer 1

This article on Wikipedia can give you a good idea about these 3 questions: .NET Framework

Answer 2

I recommend CLR via C#, which is a great book that shows exactly how C# code works "under the hood."