As I mentioned at the beginning of this month, I am working on a new research project (for the fun of it).
So far I have done quite a bit of research and a little coding. I have come up with two deliverables for the research project (which I have code names for now - which come from the two biggest individual sources I have so far):
Code Name: Vijay - this is going to be an IL Disassembler that does it the hard way (BinaryReader, BitConverter, byte array sort of stuff) - the roll your own method.
Code Name: Zsolt - this is going to be an IL Disassembler that uses the ummanged metadata API's.
My current flow of research is as follows:
1. Refresher on Hex numbering system
2. ECMA Metadata spec
3. Applied look at the metedata physical representation and how to make sense of it
4. An implementation of an IL Disassembler written using the bare minimum low level stuff - currently on this step
5. Unmanaged metadata api document the tools directory
6. An implementation of an IL Disassembler written using the unmanaged metadata api
Basically I have a ton of reading to do and a ton of code to write .... so my blogging frequency is down ... but I have learned a ton in the past month and have a lot more to go ...
Not sure how or if I will end up presenting the results of this research at code camp ... actually I'm not too sure that many people would be interested in this sort of thing ...