Get the inside scoop on this critical low-level language with an architectural guide from the most reliable authority--the language's designer, Serge Lidin. Readers discover common structures, functions, and rules for designing .NET applications, explanations for how .NET executables compile, details on the .NET IL Assembler, IL Disassembler and Metadata Validation tools, and more.
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The .NET Framework is the platform for next-generation distributed, Web applications. It exposes a language-independent yet consistent programming model across all tiers of an application, while providing seamless interoperability with and easy migration from existing technologies.
The IL Assembly language is the intermediate language that is converted to machine language by the runtime’s compilers. It is critical to runtime functionality.
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Serge Lidin is uniquely qualified to write this book because he is the developer at Microsoft responsible for the design of the IL Assembly language and for the design and implementation of IL Assembler, IL Disassembler, and Metadata Validation tools. He wrote the specifications for this language.
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Assembler for microsft compiler it is in there you just have to look around C:\Program Files if you have any microsoft compiler's Advance or Basic installed. A fully understanding of Assembler language when programming is sometime needed, more Help Files are available in the advance Releases of Microsoft products. You will need a basic thinking memories processors too address allocation resourses for the program.exe and Dynamic link Libraries (DLLs)! In a GUI enviroment.
-developer's grade Dll are included but basic.
-Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. -redo older code.
-developer's grade Dll are included but basic.
-Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. -redo older code.
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This and Jeff Richter's book are the two must have books for .Net. They take you beyond the basics of syntax and the class framework into a deeper understanding of .Net.
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Use this book to learn IL and improve ALL your .NET skills
28 Feb 2003
By Richard A. Lowe
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Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler is like a backstage pass to the language that ALL managed .NET code compiles down to and a great companion to any .NET developer who wants to better understand how their code is compiled and executed.
Benefits of the book:
For the 'average' .NET developer there are a number of things you can learn and apply to daily software development. For a start you will learn how to read the IL code from compiled C#, VB.NET or any other managed .NET assembly. This will give you more options in tuning performance (since you will understand the true IL impact of your code alternatives) or hunting down bugs, even if orignial source is unavailable.
Learning the finer points of IL will allow you to use the Reflection.Emit namespace to dynamically create and load your own IL-based assemblies at run time, for extreme flexibility, performance or both.
Knowing IL will also allow you to work with existing assemblies by disassembling then, modifying their code then re-assembling them (IL round-tripping). You can add functionality that is not available to C# or VB.NET (i.e. global methods and fields or unions within a struct) or you can control minute details of unmanaged interop.
Things I thought could be improved:
Since the text is quite dense with information, there could be more context which would help with actual application. Sometimes the implications of what was being talked about weren't clear to me.
There were few samples on the CD, although there were lots of snippets inline with the text.
All in all, this is my favorite .NET book simply because, although you can be a great .NET programmer without knowing IL, you are definately better off if you do.
23 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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The ECMA Spec is More Useful
25 Oct 2002
By Hajime (Jim) Inoue
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From its table of contents, this book would seem to be an invaluable resource for vm architects or compiler writers. Unfortunately, the book is wrong in places and the online errata page isn't updated. Also, the explanations aren't as in depth as I would like. This book should be a companion or replacement to the ECMA CIL specification. Sadly, it's neither.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Inside MS IL assembler
29 Nov 2010
By John F. Eakins
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The book meets all my expectations on learning about the Microsoft Intermediate Language Assembler, its commands and how to use it effectively. I haven't made it all the way through the book yet, but, I can tell that the content does an excellent job of presenting the material in a fairly easy to understand way. Do understand though that this book is not a step by step book, but, a learning book that doubles as a reference. Programmers of all levels will benifit from the content and even if you're not going to program in IL assembler, you will gain a deeper understanding of what's going on under the hood of the .NET Language you're using, and how it is translated before moving on to the machine specific code. It can also give you a better understanding of the assembler in case of the need to debug a program at this level, you will gain a much better understanding of what exactly is going on, and hopefully where it went wrong. What I have done so far has impressed me and left me with much more knowlege than I had before.
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