The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard

  • Authors:
  • Jim S. Miller;Susann Ragsdale

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

From the PublisherThe Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard is thedefinitive guide to understanding the annotated specification forthe Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) standard. With annotationsand code samples from both the ECMA standards committee and theMicrosoft Common Language Runtime (CLR) team, this book goes beyondthe online documentation to clarify and amplify the originalstandard and describe its implementation. The core of this book isthe international CLI standard. The text describes the CLI and itsparts and provides all the information needed to implement aVirtual Execution System (VES) or design a compiler that runs ontop of a VES and generates portable code. Author Jim Miller drawsupon his experience as editor of the CLI standard and lead of theMicrosoft CLR team to guide readers through the CLI blueprint andto a complete understanding of the CLR. Features of this bookinclude:A heavily annotated architectural overview of the standardA description of the semantics of metadataA complete specification of the Portable Executable (PE) fileformat Coverage of file format and metadata layoutAn overview of the CLI librariesA detailed description of the Common Intermediate Language(CIL) instruction setSample programs and other annexes to the standardAn enhanced online index that allows readers to quickly andeasily search the entire text for specific topicsThe Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard is thesingle source programmers, language and tool designers, and libraryand VES developers need to renderfully comprehensible.