It is anticipated that third parties will produce a host of such tools. It's also important to note that Microsoft is not restricting use of the CLR to Microsoft languages. Third party language vendors are encouraged to re-architect their languages to use the CLR, which offers a host of benefits. We'll discuss more of that later in the section on Multiple Language Support. This capability of the CLR to work transparently with multiple languages has some huge benefits for developers.
Debuggers offer the best example.
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