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

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.

• Understand how C# handles your filesystem requests and passes them down to hard disks and memory
• Learn how RAM works and how programs map to address spaces
• Discover the C# compilation sequence in detail and follow it down from abstract code to actual function
• See how your device’s micro-processor executes Machine Code and just-in-time compilation provides it when it’s needed
• Learn how the Common Language Runtime (CLR) determines the execution of your code and handles Threading and Scheduling for your instructions

This book is ideal for anyone who works with C# and has ever wondered what happens after they press F5.

1. Anatomy of the C# compilation stack
2. Data Access, Files and Storage
3. Understanding Memory Usage
4. The C# Compilation Sequence
5. From CIL to Machine Code
6. Execution through the CLR
7. Execution Model II