Product Description
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.
From the Author
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.
About the Author
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.
