This is the twelfth 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 82. What is a bit-mapped attribute? Custom attribute? Pseudo-custom attribute? There are three types of attributes: Bit-mapped — for instance public Custom — the … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 12 — Memory structure, attributes, handles

This is the eleventh 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 75. What is the TimeSpan resolution? It’s 100 nanoseconds, as specified by the documentation: 76. What is shared between app domains? Quite a few … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 11 — Various C# riddles

This is the tenth 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 65. How can you await async void method or catch exceptions thrown in it? You need to create your own synchronization context and task … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 10 — Threads, Tasks, asynchronous code and others

This is the ninth 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 59. What happens if an exception is thrown in finalizer? What about infinite loop? Let’s see this code: If you run it in dotnetfiddle … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 9 — Finalizers, queues, card tables and other GC stuff