What is clr.dll on .Net framework and what does it do?

Question

I use profiling tools on VS2012 and see,that clr.dll works a lot of time. Is it Garbage Collection? What clr.dll can do? Please tell me. Thank you!

Answer 1

Common Language Runtime. It's basically the engine for .NET

Answer 2

clr.dll is the primary binary in the .NET runtime version 4.0 and forward. This dll used to be mscorwks.dll in previous versions of .NET.