In case you missed the “Disassembling for fun” at Code Camp, I'll be presenting at the C# User Group next Tuesday night in Waltham.
The description is a little something like this:
We will explore the different parts of a .Net assembly file using several disassemblers/decompilers and analyze the information they provide. Some of the parts that we will look at in detail are: the file format (PE/COFF), CLI headers, metadata (heaps and tables) and of course the IL.
After analyzing the information some disassemblers provide (and seeing how disassemblers are used), we will take a look at what it takes to write a disassembler from the ground up in C#. All sample code will be provided on the website.
I know most people are only interested in how to get to 'the code', but there really are a lot of different things that need to be known to make that happen ... we will cover those things as well as how to get to 'the code'. Some stuff will trivial (you can amuse your friends with) and other stuff will be REALLY useful.