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

This is the eighth 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 52. Can you have class in a class? Class in an interface? Interface in a class? Interface in an interface? Yes. No. Yes. No.: … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 8 — C# gotchas

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