.NET IL Assembler

Appendix B

Metadata Tables Reference

Table: Entry Types

Type	Description
BYTE	Unsigned 1-byte integer
SHORT	Signed 2-byte integer
USHORT	Unsigned 2-byte integer
ULONG	Unsigned 4-byte integer
RID: <table>	Record index to <table>
STRING	Offset in the #Strings stream
GUID	Offset in the #GUID stream
BLOB	Offset in the #Blob stream
<coded_token_type>	Coded token, such as TypeDefOrRef (see the “Coded Token Types” table at the end of the appendix)

Table: Module; RID Type: 00; Token Type: 0x00000000; Metadata (MD) Streams: #~, #-

Entry Name	Entry Type	Comments
Generation	USHORT	For edit-and-continue
Name	STRING ...