This is the seventh part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 45. Should we always avoid boxing? Boxing is expensive, it wraps value types into reference instances so we lose some performance. However, take this … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 7 — Word tearing, locking and others

This is the sixth part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 36. What is a shim? .NET applications are started directly, the same way as native applications are. The entry point of the binary points … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 6 — Object internals

This is the fifth part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 27. Can two methods differ in return type only? Not in C#, but they can in IL. See this: Interesting part is this: The … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 5 — Methods, parameters, modifiers

This is the fourth part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 18. Can you add type constructor to the interface? In C# no. In IL — yes. See the code below: If you are not … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 4 — Type members

This is the third part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 13. Can a variable be true and false at the same time? Yes, see this Output: The output is very misleading and that is … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 3 — Initialization tricks