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An excellent guide to a better understanding of .NET internals is:

• CLR via C#, Second Edition, by Jeffrey Richter (Microsoft Press)

Intermediate Language, obfuscation, and debugging are all seemingly arcane topics. If you want to dig deeper, the following books will help you:

• CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET, by Jason Bock (Apress)

• Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler, by Serge Lidin (Microsoft Press)

  

  Figure 16-30. Obfuscation results

One of the few high-level books that has practical, useful information on IL is:

• Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition, by Andrew Troelsen (Apress)

PreEmptive Solutions has several articles and whitepapers on obfuscation on its web site:

• http://www.preemptive.com/downloads/Documentation.html

Jason Haley also has a number of terrific articles and webinars covering obfuscation on his web site:

• http://www.jasonhaley.com/obfuscation/

Chris Brumme’s blog hasn’t been updated for some time, but the posts that are there are some of the best writing and commentary on the CLR and .NET internals:

Figure 16-31. Obfuscated assembly as disassembled by Reflector

• http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/cbrumme/

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