Question

I’m hunting for a short example on IL generation programming that includes:

• a return value
• branching on a null test
• assigning to a temporary variable, or having a method with a function return as an argument to another method

It’d be great if there was a resource with examples + line by line explanation of what is occuring.

Does VS 2010 help with tracing at the il level?

I could post some incomplete examples

Answer 1

An easy way to learn about IL is to write the code in e.g. C# and look at the generated IL. That way you can easily see what various code constructs map to. For a great book on the subject, I recommend Expert .NET IL Assembler.