C# Deconstructed: Discover how C# works on the .NET Framework

by Mohammad Rahman

Overview

C# Deconstructed answers a seemingly simply question: Just what is going on, exactly, when you run C# code on the .NET Framework?

To answer this question we will dig ever deeper into the structure of the C# language and the onion-skin abstraction layers of the .NET Framework that underpins it. We’ll follow the execution thread downwards, first to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) then down through just-in-time compilation into Machine Code before finally seeing the results executed at the hardware level.

The aim of this deep-dive is to provide you with a much more rounded knowledge of the environment within which you code exists. As a managed language, it’s best-practice to let the Framework deal with device interaction but you’ll find the experience of taking the cover off once in a while a very rewarding one that will greatly enrich your appreciate of the C# language and the way in which in functions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430266709
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	09/21/2014
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

About the Author

Mohammad Rahman is a computerprogrammer. He has been aprogrammer since 1998 and for the past seven years he has been designingdesktop and web-based systems for private and government agencies using C# language in Microsoft.NET. Currently he is working as acomputer programmer and earning his doctorate as a part-time student at the University ofCanberra, Australia.

Table of Contents

• Anatomy of the C# compilation stack
• Data Access, Files and Storage
• Understanding Memory Usage
• The C# Compilation Sequence
• From CIL to Machine Code
• Execution through the CLR
• Execution Model II