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Ensuring CLS Compliance

As you will see over the course of this book, C# does define a number of programming constructs

that are not CLS-compliant. The good news, however, is that you can instruct the C# compiler to

check your code for CLS compliance using a single .NET attribute:

// Tell the C# compiler to check for CLS compliance.

[assembly: System.CLSCompliant(true)]

Chapter 16 dives into the details of attribute-based programming. Until then, simply under-

stand that the [CLSCompliant] attribute will instruct the C# compiler to check each and every line of

code against the rules of the CLS. If any CLS violations are discovered, you receive a compiler error

and a description of the offending code.