MSIL

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by Mark Pelf

Overview of 5 free .NET Decompilers

.NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code during Run-time

by Jerry.Wang

Modify methods' IL codes on runtime even if they have been JIT-compiled, supports release mode / x64 & x86, and variants of .NET versions, from 2.0 to 4.5.

.NET COM Interop using Postbuild

by Florian Rosmann

COM Interop using a little post compiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces.

.NET Internals and Code Injection

by Daniel Pistelli

An article about .NET internals and code injection

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.NET – 5 Free Decompilers

by Mark Pelf

Overview of 5 free .NET Decompilers

.NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code during Run-time

by Jerry.Wang

Modify methods' IL codes on runtime even if they have been JIT-compiled, supports release mode / x64 & x86, and variants of .NET versions, from 2.0 to 4.5.

.NET COM Interop using Postbuild

by Florian Rosmann

COM Interop using a little post compiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces.

.NET Internals and Code Injection

by Daniel Pistelli

An article about .NET internals and code injection

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MSIL

.NET – 5 Free Decompilers

by Mark Pelf

Overview of 5 free .NET Decompilers

.NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code during Run-time

by Jerry.Wang

Modify methods' IL codes on runtime even if they have been JIT-compiled, supports release mode / x64 & x86, and variants of .NET versions, from 2.0 to 4.5.

.NET COM Interop using Postbuild

by Florian Rosmann

COM Interop using a little post compiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces.

.NET Internals and Code Injection

by Daniel Pistelli

An article about .NET internals and code injection

.NET Internals and Native Compiling

by Daniel Pistelli

An article about .NET internals and native compiling.

A Better Loader for ORM Frameworks

by Chris Stefano

Generate loader classes for faster operation using Reflection.Emit

A High Performance Binary Serializer using Microsoft Common Intermediate Language

by asheesh goja

A high performance binary serializer using Microsoft Common Intermediate Language

A Look under the hood of the .NET Framework

by Sander Rossel

Journey to the center of the .NET Framework with a chance of IL along the way!

A Possible Enhancement of the MSIL

by Valer BOCAN

Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) may be improved by adding a few new instructions

A simple Orca clone using Reflection.Emit

by Reto Ravasio

A WPF app that uses dynamic types and databinding for displaying MSI files.

Adding DOC, RTF, and OOXML Export Formats to the Microsoft Report Viewer Control

by Anton Ponomarev

By following steps outlined in this article, you will be able to get Report Viewer to generate reports in Microsoft Word formats (DOC, RTF, WordprocessingML, and OOXML) when working in the local mode.

Advanced .NET Debugging Extracting Information from Memory

by Rene Pally

Advanced .NET Debugging Extracting Information from Memory

An Overview of C# 4.0

by Buu Nguyen

Discusses the new features of C# 4.0 including dynamic lookup, covariance/contravariance generics, named and optional paramters

Analysis of the compiled CIL (Part 1)

by GaryWoodfine

Analysis of the CIL generated by the .net compiler for 4 Languages in VS 2005

Analyze IL and say hello to your performance

by Hugo Pais Batista

Avoid unnecessary variable declaration and redundant instructions. Analyzing and understanding the compiler and generated IL instructions in a simple example, saving your performance.

Assembly Manipulation and C# / VB.NET Code Injection

by Sebastien Lebreton

Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Reflector or JustDecompile. Reflexil is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports "on-the-fly" C#/VB.NET code injection.

Broadcasting Events through a Control Hierarchy

by Peter Rilling

Implement support for broadcasting events to all ancestors in a control hierarchy for Win Forms applications.

Building a Simple .NET Compiler

by Jason R. Fruit

Implement a compiling calculator to learn about .NET CIL compilation

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 1 - Learn to break a .NET Assembly

by Chua Wen Ching

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 1 of 3

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 2 - Learn to protect your .NET assemblies from being tampered

by Chua Wen Ching

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 2 of 3

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 3 - Learn to break Strong Name .NET Assemblies

by Chua Wen Ching

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 3 of 3

C# Open Source Managed Operating System - Intro to Plugs

by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

Introduction to writing plugs in Cosmos in C#, Assembly, or X#

C-like Exports between VB6 and VB.NET

by venom00

In this article, we'll talk about VB6-.NET interoperation without involving COM. How? Making C-like exports of some functions from a VB.NET DLL. First, I'll introduce the technique used with a very simple sample and then it will be explained how to set a global hook just using VB (6 and .NET).

CLR Injection: Runtime Method Replacer

by Ziad Elmalki

Replace any method with another method at runtime. Updated for 3.5 SP1.

Code Analysis Tools - A collection of IL code analysis tools

by jconwell

This tool analyses the IL of a list of assemblies, looking for types, methods, and fields that are not used by another list of assemblies. This lets you see if you have unused legacy code lying around that should be cleaned up.

Code generation at runtime

by Software Developer's Journal

The .NET platform contains no extensions which would allow for the use of advanced aspect oriented programming. But it does contain mechanisms which makes it possible to build components which provide similar functionality. We will find out how to achieve this in this article.

Compiling Your C Code to .NET - Part 1

by Alexandre Bencz

With this new OrangeC/C++ compiler back-end, you can compile your C code to .NET

Converting Legacy Assemblies to WCF

by Dave Curylo, MCAD

How to expose legacy or third party assemblies over WCF with simple modifications to the MSIL.

Custom Assemblies in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

by Krishna Prasad V.R.

This article focuses on the problems you might face and the probable solution when using .NET custom assemblies. This article also gives in-depth details of modifying .NET assemblies for which you do not have the source code.

Dependency Injection with ObjectPoolManager (OPM)

by NavnathKale

Lightweight and simple

Don’t rely on obfuscation

by Fady Anwar

An article demonstrating why you should not rely on obfuscation to protect your .NET applications.

DotNetPeLib: A Library to Read and Generate .NET Assemblies in C++11

by Alexandre Bencz

DotNetPELib is a library which abstracts managed information such as namespaces, classes, fields, methods, and instructions. The information can then be used to generate assembly language source files, or PE executables or DLLs.

Dynamic Assemblies using Reflection.Emit. Part II of II - Reflection.Emit

by Piyush S Bhatnagar

This article explains how Reflection.Emit classes can be used to dynamically generate .NET assemblies.

Dynamic Interface Implementation

by Kemeny Attila

Generate proxy class dynamically which implements interface

Dynamic List Sorting

by Johannes Hansen

Dynamically sorting a list by using dynamic methods and delegates.

Dynamic Objects, Factories, and Runtime Machines to Boost Performance

by Philip Liebscher

An examination of dynamic object instantiation and runtime machines to boost performance.

Editing an assembly's manifest and more...

by Simon McEnlly

An article on editing an assembly's manifest and some other IL attributes.

Extending Castle DynamicProxy

by Thiago de Arruda

Shows how to extend the proxy generated by this framework by using Reflection.Emit.

Fast declarative typesafety with DynamicMethods for SQL

by tcassisi

Generating typed field accessors and applying them to object mapping and SQL Stored Procedures

Fast Dynamic Property Access with C#

by James Nies

Reflecting on Properties is nice, but often it can be too slow. This article describes an alternative method for dynamic property access.

Fast late-bound invocation through DynamicMethod delegates

by Alessandro Febretti

This article describes a way to achieve fast late-bound invocation through the generation of custom MSIL code at runtime.

Fasterflect - a fast and simple API for Reflection invocation

by Buu Nguyen

Examine the implementation, API, and performance for Fasterflect, an alternative to the .NET Reflection API.

FlingOS: Teaching OS dev in C#

by Ed Nutting

In this article I discuss the innovative approach, taken by FlingOS, to teaching OS and low-level development to high-level developers using C#.

GetOpt for .NET

by Unknown Narrator

A GetOpt implementation for .NET.

Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex)

by Jonathan de Halleux, Nikolai Tillmann

Pex is a new tool that helps in understanding the behavior of .NET code, debugging issues, and in creating a test suite that covers all corner cases -- fully automatically.

Hacking out the C# 2.0 Iterators

by Giancarlo Aguilera

A hack that enables C# 2.0 Iterators with .NET 1.1.

Hardcore Microsoft .Net

by Theraot

What Microsoft didn't want you to know

How to Embroid Glyph from True Type Font File

by Den367

Using System.Windows.Media library to create embroidery design of a glyph from true type font file

How to Protect your Code from Prying Eyes and Theft

by NineRays, Mark Sochan

Most .NET software projects can easily be tampered, exposing your software to security risks and theft of intellectual property. This article shows different techniques used to protect .NET code and determine the best protection for you. 9rays.Net offers you Spices.Obfuscator to these ends.

IlPad

by icemanind

A program to compile C# code into MSIL code

ILRewriting for beginners

by Mattias Högström

Runtime IL-Rewriting can be used to add behavior such as logging to applications, or redirect calls from one API to another. This article and accompanying source code explains how to substitute a method call at runtime.

Improving Maintainability of Legacy Code With a JSON Architecture

by rcarlson-cayen, Cayen Systems

This article details how to make a legacy code base more maintainable by utilizing a JSON architecture.

Introduction to CLR World

by Pedro Benevides

It is important to know how things work behind the scenes in .NET.

Introduction to Creating Dynamic Types with Reflection.Emit

by jconwell

Introduction to creating dynamic types with Reflection.Emit.

Introduction to Creating Dynamic Types with Reflection.Emit: Part 2

by jconwell

Part 2 of an introduction to creating dynamic types. This article shows how to actually generate the methods in a dynamic type and how to call them.

Introduction to IL Assembly Language

by Sameers Javed

Start using IL Assembly Language to debug your code at low level and understand how .NET deals with your high level code

JIT Optimizations

by Sasha Goldshtein

In this article, we will look into JIT optimizations, with specific focus on inlining.

Kerosene ORM Dynamic Records In Depth

by mbarbac

A deep dive tutorial on Kerosene ORM Dynamic Records and other core concepts of the library

Kerosene ORM: a dynamic, configuration-less and self-adaptive ORM for POCO objects supporting a SQL-like syntax from C#

by mbarbac

The seventh version of the dynamic, configuration-less and self-adaptive Kerosene ORM library, that provides full real support for POCO objects, natural SQL-like syntax from C#, and advanced capabilities while being extremely easy to use.

Learning Binary and Hexadecimal

by Jeremy Falcon

A beginner's guide to talking like a computer.

MAGES - Ultimate Scripting for .NET

by Florian Rappl

This article introduces MAGES - a very simple, yet powerful, expression parser and interpreter.

Mandelbrot Set in MSIL

by Richard Birkby

Demonstrates the use of Windows Forms, GDI+ from CIL

Modernize Your C# Code - Part II: Methods

by Florian Rappl

Want to modernize your C# codebase? Let's continue with methods.

Mono.Cecil, The Most Powerful Tool You've Ever Heard Of

by ronnyek

Experimentation with Mono.Cecil, the IL Manipulation library

Moving Memory in .NET using VB and the CIL

by Nathaniel Moschkin

Topics and methods on programming in .NET and performance considerations

Observable property pattern, memory leaks, and weak delegates for .NET

by Alexey A. Popov

This article is dedicated to the observable property design pattern, a very nice pattern used in the Microsoft .NET Framework, a possible memory leak problem with it, and gives a couple of ways to solve it.

Parsing the IL of a Method Body

by Sorin Serban

This article shows how to get a readable and programmable result from the IL array provided by the MethodBody.GetILAsByteArray() method.

Performance Testing

by Simon McEnlly

Attach performance hooks to an assembly through a command line utility.

Reflecting Within a Method Body

by Eric Lynch

Extends .NET reflection to decode the byte array returned by System.Reflection.MethodBody.GetILByteArray(), discusses the techniques to achieve this, and provides a brief primer on .NET reflection.

Reply to Scott Henselman's Interview Questions

by Adnan Aman

This is my very humble effort to reply Mr. Scott Henselman's Interview questions with great respect for him.

RunSharp - Reflection.Emit Has Never Been Easier

by Stefan Simek

RunSharp (or Run#) is a high-level wrapper around the Reflection.Emit API, allowing you to generate code at runtime quickly and easily.

Some Fun with Dynamic Methods and CLR (Part 1)

by wmjordan

Circumventing language obstacles and optimizing performance with Dynamic Methods, Dynamic Assemblies.

Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005: Chapter 1 - Introducing .NET

by Addison-Wesley

An introduction to .NET.

The C# Trickbox

by Florian Rappl

A close look at some powerful features of C# that are less known but sometimes come in very handy

Unexpected Garbage Collection Results Courtesy of Your Compiler

by Dennis C. Dietrich

Clarifying how the .NET GC identifies objects to collect once and for all... hopefully...

Unmanaged code can wrap managed methods

by Emilio Reale

Exporting methods for the .NET class inside VB6 or unmanaged C++.

Using CAPICOM in .NET for Digital Signatures with ASCII/UTF8 Content

by Fatih KIHTIR

Modifying CAPICOM Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW) generated by TlbImp.exe to enable CAPICOM to process digital signatures with UTF8/ASCII content (mostly signed by Java).

Using Reflection.Emit to Precompile Expressions to MSIL

by Steve Marsh

The classes in this project allow you to parse text expressions entered by a user and compile them to a .NET assembly. This assembly can be executed on the fly, or saved to a DLL.

Using the _CDECL calling convention in C# (changing compiler service)

by Mainak Saha

An article on using the __cdecl callback from C#, changing compiler service.

VB vs. C# MSIL Code Generation: Are the results equal?

by Giancarlo Aguilera

A discussion of some differences between VB and C# MSIL code.

Visual Studio Extensibility: Creating Extension to get Mail Notifications in IDE

by Vikas Sharma

In this article we will make a Visual Studio extension(Visual Studio VSIX Package) that would notify us for our emails in VisualStudio Status bar

Visual Studio X86 Assembly Debugger (C# Open Source Managed Operating System)

by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

Several users have written to me requesting information on the new Cosmos X86 assembly level debugger. Because of the great interest I have written this short preview article.

WebForms Automatic Generation Using Reflection (1)

by ediazc

Describes how to generate a WebForm using reflection from a class.