Gray Hat C#

PREFACE

I get asked a lot why I like C# as much as I do. Being a supporter of open source software, a dedicated Linux user, and a contributor to Metasploit (which is written predominantly in Ruby), C# seems like an odd choice as my favorite language. When I began writing in C# many years ago, Miguel de Icaza (of GNOME fame) had recently started a small project called Mono. Mono, in essence, is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework. C# as a language had been submitted as an ECMA standard, and the .NET framework was touted by Microsoft as a replacement for Java because code could be compiled on one system or platform and run on another. The only issue with this was that Microsoft had only released the .NET framework for the ...