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Standard ECMA-334
C# Language Specification

4^th edition (June 2006)

This International Standard specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the C# programming language.

It specifies:

• The representation of C# programs;
• The syntax and constraints of the C# language;
• The semantic rules for interpreting C# programs;
• The restrictions and limits imposed by a conforming implementation of C#.

This International Standard does not specify:

• The mechanism by which C# programs are transformed for use by a data-processing system;
• The mechanism by which C# applications are invoked for use by a data-processing system;
• The mechanism by which input data are transformed for use by a C# application;
• The mechanism by which output data are transformed after being produced by a C# application;
• The size or complexity of a program and its data that will exceed the capacity of any specific data-processing system or the capacity of a particular processor;
• All minimal requirements of a data-processing system that is capable of supporting a conforming implementation.

The following files can be freely downloaded:

File name	Size (Bytes)	Content
ECMA-334.pdf	5 870 328	Acrobat (r) PDF file
Microsoft patent statement	25 815	Acrobat (r) PDF file

This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 23270:2006,
which is freely available here .

The previous replaced "historical" editions of this Ecma Standard are available here.

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