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

This is the second 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 7. How to compact the LOH? You need to set GCSettings.LargeObjectHeapCompactionMode property to CompactOnce. It will be compacted when the GC will be cleaning … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 2 — GC-related things