Resources
Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelpob/default.aspx
http://pzsolt.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/matt_pietrek/default.aspx
Websites
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dile/
http://vijaymukhi.com/documents/books/metadata/contents.htm
http://vijaymukhi.com/documents/books/ildasm/ildasm.htm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconInsideNETFramework.asp
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm
http://www.mono-project.com/Cecil (added 1/29/06)
Articles
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelpob/archive/2004/09/22/233121.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/asmex.asp
http://bschwehn.de/ICeeFileGenPart1.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1000/metadata/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/02/PE/default.aspx
http://www.blong.com/Conferences/DCon2003/ReverseEngineering/ReverseEngineering.htm
http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs427/.Net+CLR+Internals#CoReMet
http://www.zyloid.com/recomposer/files/diss.pdf
Newsgroups
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/MessageBoard.aspx?id=2838 (added 1/29/06)- MSIL
Presentations
http://www.iunknown.com/Files/metadata_internals.pdf - Metadata Internals, by
http://www.clevelanddotnet.info/presentations/UnderstandingMSIL.ppt - Understanding MSIL, by Sam Nasr
http:/www.migang.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=obfuscation2.ppt&mid=354 - Creating a .Net Obfuscator: File Structure, IL, Obfuscation and Fingerprinting in .Net Executables, Godfrey Nolan
http://pllab.cs.nthu.edu.tw/cs3404/slides/MSIL_CLR_20050602.ppt - MSIL & CLI, by Kuen-Yuan Shieh
http:/www.msakademik.net/academicdays2005/Serge_Lidin.ppt - IL Assembler Today and Tomorrow, Serge Lidin
Books
Applied Microsoft .Net Framework - Jeffrey Richter
Inside Microsoft .Net IL Assembler - Serge Lidin
Shared Source CLI Essentials - David Stutz, Ted Neward, Geoff Shilling
CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .Net - Jason Bock (added 9/10/05)
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering - Eldad Eilam (added 9/10/05)
Decompiling Java (added 1/29/06)
Disassemblers/Decompilers/Explorers/Browsers (most found via - SharpTool Box and Proogram-Transformation.org)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dile - DILE
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ - Reflector
http://www.strangelights.com/Fsharp/callgraph.aspx - Assembly Explorer
http://www.oaklandsoftware.com/product_1.html - .Net Component Inspector
http://www.remotesoft.com/dotexplorer/ - Remotesoft .Net Explorer
http://www.lesser-software.com/en/content/products/LSW%20DotNet-Tools/LSW_DotNet_Reflection_Browser.htm - LSW DotNet- Reflection - Browser
http://www.jbrowse.com/products/asmex/ - ASMEX
http://www.solishine.com/Home/Products/SoliNav/tabid/54/Default.aspx - SoliNav
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/controlinspector.asp - ControlInspector
http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/statebrowser/ - Object State Browser
http://www.netdecompiler.com/ - Dis#
http://www.smidgeonsoft.prohosting.com/pebrowse-pro-interactive-debugger.html - PEBrowse Professional Interactive Debugger
Mono's IL disassembler - monodis - Has some nice command line parameters that allow you to only output specific metadata table contents
http://www.remotesoft.com/salamander/ - Remotesoft .Net Decompiler
http://www.saurik.com/net/exemplar/ - Anakrino (the original open source .Net Decompiler, which I don't believe is active right now ...)
http://www.9rays.net/cgi-bin/components.cgi?act=1&cid=86 - Spices.Net