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CIL Programming

Under the Hood of .NET

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  1. Jason Bock
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  • The only book to cover programming in the CIL; think of it as the first book on "assembly language" programming for .NET
  • Shows how and why programmers would "touch the metal" and program the CIL directly
  • The author is a recognized authority on Microsoft technologies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-xviii
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  2. Language Interoperability

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 1-21

  3. ilasm Directives and Attributes

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 23-67

  4. CIL Opcodes

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 69-119

  5. ilasm and CIL in Practice

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 121-147

  6. Debugging CIL

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 149-192

  7. .NET Languages and CIL

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 193-237

  8. Emitting Types

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 239-270

  9. Dynamic Proxies in .NET

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 271-315

  10. CIL Tips

    • Jason Bock
    Pages 317-318

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 319-345
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About this book

The Common Intermediate Language (CIL) is the core language of .NET. Although .NET developers often use a high-level language (such as C# or VB .NET) to develop their systems, they can use CIL to do anything allowed by.NET specificationswhich is not the case for C# and VB .NET. Understanding how CIL works will provide you with a deep, language-independent insight into the core parts of .NET. This knowledge is essential for creating dynamic types, a powerful part of the .NET Framework.

In CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET, Jason Bock offers an in-depth tutorial on programming in CIL. First, Bock discusses the basics of .NET assemblies and manifests. He then shows how to create assemblies in .NETincluding the ilasm directives and CIL opcodes, and how these are used to define assemblies, classes, field, methods, and method definitions. Bock also covers the ways in which C#, VB .NET, and other non-Microsoft languages emit CIL, and how they differ. Finally, he reveals how developers can create dynamic assemblies at runtime via the Emitter classes.

After reading this guide, you will gain a better understanding of CIL and how to program directly into it. CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET is a must-have on every .NET developer's desk!

About the author

Jason Bock is a senior consultant for Magenic Technologies (http://www.magenic.com). He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET and .NET Security, both published by Apress, as well as Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial. He has also written numerous articles on technical development issues associated with both Visual Basic and Java. Jason holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University. You can find out more about him at http://www.jasonbock.net.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: CIL Programming

  • Book Subtitle: Under the Hood of .NET

  • Authors: Jason Bock

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0845-7

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Jason Bock 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-041-6Published: 19 June 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-5156-9Published: 15 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0845-7Published: 01 January 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 360

  • Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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