CLR and CLI - What is the difference?

Question

I want to know what exactly is the difference between CLR & CLI? From whatever I have read so far, it seems to indicate that CLI is a subset of CLR. But isn\'t everythin

Answer 1

CLR is the complete environment in which CLI ,CTS,CLS works in integration it also incluse garbage collection,memory management ,security,intemediate language for native code... CLI is a specification for the format of executable code, and the runtime environment that can execute that code.