Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution

Starting from CLR 4.0, multiple versions of the CLR can be loaded into the same process. This doesn’t mean that you can mix the 1.1 and 2.0 runtimes, but you can have CLR 2.0 loaded in the same process with CLR 4.0. This is great news for managed shell extension developers, managed COM object developers, and other library developers whose libraries are consumed by unmanaged code. The CLR Inside