Understanding the Common Language Runtime
John Lam
http://www.iunknown.com
The key to understanding any new platform is to take a look under the
hood to see how things *really* work. The three key things about the new
platform are metadata, metadata, and metadata. Sure, there's a bunch of
stuff like Visual Studio .NET, ASP.NET and Windows Forms, but
understanding how the CLR works will make you a better developer. I
promise.
In this talk, we will spend a lot of time poking about inside of the
Common Language Runtime using some simple, readily available tools. It
will be just me, a text editor and a debugger.
Come prepared to have your eyes opened.
John Lam spends most of his time thinking about the Common Language
Runtime. He is spending an increasing amount of time thinking about
Aspect Oriented Programming. He leads a nomadic lifestyle in Toronto
where he visits various cafes and libraries during the day on his quest
for CLR nirvana.
He is the co-author of Essential XML with Don Box and Aaron Skonnard, as
well as the co-author of the Delphi Developers Handbook with Marco Cantu
and Tim Gooch.
He speaks often at various conferences around the world about .NET and
CLR issues. He spends an increasing amount of time consulting for
Microsoft. He delivers training classes for Wintellect
, and maintains a web log about software
development issues at iunknown.com