.NET Runtime instances

[Paul Basin]

Hello,

I have a question about .NET runtime... Can there be
multiple instances of the .NET runtime running on a
machine? OR is it one OS - one runtime?

Thanks!

 

[Richard Grimes [MVP]]

Hello,

I have a question about .NET runtime... Can there be
multiple instances of the .NET runtime running on a
machine? OR is it one OS - one runtime?

Thanks!

The runtime is not a separate process. When you start a .NET process the
runtime is loaded into that process. (For pre-XP systems its exactly that
case - the process is created and the runtime is loaded, which opens a small
security hole when the runtime is not running, for XP the system starts the
runtime with the runtime already loaded.)

Richard

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Paul,

I have a question about .NET runtime... Can there be
multiple instances of the .NET runtime running on a
machine? OR is it one OS - one runtime?

You can have multiple versions of the CLR installed and running.



Mattias