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| Unmanaged code
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| Definition
| Also called unsafe code, code that executes outside of the control of the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Unmanaged code may perform unsafe operations such as pointer arithmetic. Unmanaged code is used for accessing unmanaged memory, calling Windows APIs, interfacing to COM components, and coding performance-critical methods which avoid the overhead of the CLR.
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| See also
| Unmanaged data
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