Overview
- 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)
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!
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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
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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