Objectives

What/Why/How

CIL Bytecode: The assembly language of the CLR

Why learning it has major benefits

How to spelunk your favorite programming language

Summary

In summation...

CIL is the simplest assembly language you'll ever learn

Knowing what's happening "under the hood" aids understanding

Having low-level tools at your disposal aids debugging

Credentials

Who is this guy?

Architect, Engineering Manager/Leader, "force multiplier"

http://www.newardassociates.com

http://blogs.newardassociates.com

Sr Distinguished Engineer, Capital One

Educative (http://educative.io) Author

Performance Management for Engineering Managers

Books

Developer Relations Activity Patterns (w/Woodruff, et al; APress, forthcoming)

Professional F# 2.0 (w/Erickson, et al; Wrox, 2010)

Effective Enterprise Java (Addison-Wesley, 2004)

SSCLI Essentials (w/Stutz, et al; OReilly, 2003)

Server-Based Java Programming (Manning, 2000)