December 2011 - Posts

• Anatomy of a .NET Assembly - Type forwards

  Posted Friday, December 23, 2011 2:02 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  If you've ever had a poke around System.dll or System.Core.dll in Reflector, you may have noticed TypeForwardedToAttributes applied to the assembly: [assembly: TypeForwardedTo(typeof(Lazy<>))] [assembly: TypeForwardedTo(typeof(LazyThreadSafetyMode))] Read More by Simon Cooper | 0 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: Anatomy of a .NET Assembly

• Subterranean IL: Explicit overrides

  Posted Monday, December 12, 2011 1:02 PM | 1 Comments
  
  

  Normally, virtual method overrides in .NET are done implicitly; if a subclass has a virtual method with the same name and signature as a virtual method in a base class, then the method in the subclass overrides the method in the base class: .class public Read More by Simon Cooper | 1 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: Subterranean IL