Virus Writers Take An Early Crack At .Net
News On Wednesday, antivirus companies received a copy of the first virus capable of infecting files based on Microsoft's .Net Intermediate Language, or MSIL. Though the virus spreads to .Net files, only a small fraction of it is written in MSIL...
[January 10, 2002, 9:37]
Weaving Ada 95 Into The .Net Environment
White Papers This paper provides the means to extract Ada specification files from MicroSoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) code and compile Ada programs into MSIL. This paper explains the efforts to add Ada to Microsoft's family of .NET languages.
[June 16, 2007, 0:00]
.Net Attributes Are More Than Decoration
News As you can see from this example, the purpose of .Net attributes is to signal a compiler or the runtime to generate MSIL or to operate on the MSIL generated, based on metadata representing the attribute.
[July 5, 2002, 20:37]
Visual Studio Hacks: Examine The Innards Of Assemblies
White Papers When the user compiles the source code in Visual Studio, the compiler translates the high-level source code, not into machine-specific instructions, but into an intermediate language known as MicroSoft Intermediate Language (MSIL).
[October 24, 2007, 0:00]
Speculation About Microsoft's Mysterious X#
News You don't need to look much further than the architecture of .Net Runtime Services where an assembly's MSIL is compiled as needed, to see a precedent in action. When Don spoke at the IDEAlliance XML Conference 2002 in Baltimore, he announced that...
[April 10, 2003, 14:57]
Experts: Microsoft's Security Push Lacks Oomph
News In fact, antivirus companies just this week received a copy of the first virus capable of infecting files based on Microsoft's .Net Intermediate Language, or MSIL. Microsoft's security initiatives and the release of the company's "most secure...
[January 14, 2002, 9:48]
