Chapter 1
Simple Sample
This chapter offers a general overview of ILAsm, the MSIL assembly language. (MSIL stands for Microsoft intermediate language, which will soon be discussed in this chapter.) The chapter reviews a relatively simple program written in ILAsm, and then I suggest some modifications that illustrate how you can express the concepts and elements of Microsoft .NET programming in this language.
This chapter does not teach you how to write programs in ILAsm. But it should help you understand what the IL assembler (ILASM) and the IL disassembler (ILDASM) do and how to use that understanding to analyze the internal structure of a .NET-based ...
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