what is mcorlib and mcorwks?

mscorlib.dll (or Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library) is a library file which contains the basic types included in the .NET Framework such as System.Int32, System.Double, System.Boolean and System.String.

As it's virtually impossible to write a .NET application without using types in this library, a reference to it is automatically added by the C# compiler unless you specify otherwise.

mscorwks.dll (or Microsoft Common Object Runtime Workstation version) is a COM server dll containing the Common Language Runtime itself in versions before 4.0. It was renamed clr.dll from version 4.0 onwards.

The CLR needs to be loaded into memory by every .NET process to manage its execution.

There was also a server version of this dll (mscorsvr.dll) which was tuned to give better performance in multiprocessor, server environments.

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Vulpes11y ago
mscorlib.dll (or Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library) is a library file which contains the basic types included in the .NET Framework such as System.Int32, System.Double, System.Boolean and System.String.

As it's virtually impossible to write a .NET application without using types in this library, a reference to it is automatically added by the C# compiler unless you specify otherwise.

mscorwks.dll (or Microsoft Common Object Runtime Workstation version) is a COM server dll containing the Common Language Runtime itself in versions before 4.0. It was renamed clr.dll from version 4.0 onwards.

The CLR needs to be loaded into memory by every .NET process to manage its execution.

There was also a server version of this dll (mscorsvr.dll) which was tuned to give better performance in multiprocessor, server environments.