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| Base Class Library
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| Definition
| A .NET Framework library, BCL is the standard for the C# runtime library and one of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) standard libraries. BCL provides types representing the built-in CLI data types, basic file access, collections, custom attributes, formatting, security attributes, I/O streams, string manipulation, and more.
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| See also
| .NET Framework, .NET Framework Class Library, Common Language Infrastructure
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