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.NET Forum / .NET Framework / CLR / May 2004Loading of .NET executable
Can someone refer to me a good online resourec about how a .NET exe gets loaded into memory and executed once I dbl-click the executable icon from my windows explorer? > Can someone refer to me a good online resourec about how a .NET exe > gets loaded into memory and executed once I dbl-click the executable > icon from my windows explorer? 1) Jeffrey Richter's (sorry if misspelled) book describes this 2) you can take Shared Source CLI from MS site and study 3) in brief - the stub embedded into .NET executable loads mscorelib.dll using Win32 API and passes execution to .NET core.  SignatureEugene Mayevski EldoS Corp., CTO Networking and security solutions, custom development services http://www.eldos.com Eugene, >3) in brief - the stub embedded into .NET executable loads mscorelib.dll ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think you mean Mscoree.dll. Mattias SignatureMattias Sjögren [MVP] mattias @ mvps.org http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/ | http://www.dotnetinterop.com Please reply only to the newsgroup. Which is a stub that loads mscorwks or mscorsrv depending on the operativ system the application runs on. The "stub" mentioned is the PE-Header, so nothing fancy .NET specific. Although for XP (or 2003 don't really remember) and later the OS identifes the exe as a .net application and starts the CLR directly, effectivly killing the possibility for pe-header based viruses on you apps SignaturePatrik L?wendahl www.cshrp.net - "Elegant code by witty programmers" > Eugene, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Mattias > Can someone refer to me a good online resourec about how a .NET exe > gets loaded into memory and executed once I dbl-click the executable > icon from my windows explorer? What details exactly? Basically the EXE has has a stub that runs and passes it off to .NET. .NET then grabs your EXE and starts execution of the UL via JIT. -- Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/ "Programming is an art form that fights back" Get your ASP.NET in gear with IntraWeb! http://www.atozed.com/IntraWeb/
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