Acknowledgments

First I would like to thank the editing team from Apress who worked with me on this book: Ewan Buckingham, Jill Balzano, Mary Behr, and Dhaneesh Kumar. It was a pleasure and an honor to work with such a highly professional team

I would also like to thank Damien Foggon, who was the principal technical reviewer of this book. Damien’s attention to details definitely helped make the book better.

My thanks also go to my colleagues Jim Hogg and Vance Morrison, who were the technical editors of the previous version of the book. Jim worked on the common language runtime team for quite a while and was the driving force of the ECMA/ISO standardization effort concerning the .NET common language infrastructure (famous ECMA-335 spec). Vance has worked on the CLR team since its inception in 1998, he led the just-in-time compiler team for a long time, and he helped me a lot with the IL assembler. Jim and Vance provided valuable feedback on the draft of the previous book, leaving no stone unturned.

And of course, I would like to extend my thanks to my colleagues who helped me write all IL assembler books, starting with the first one in 2002, by answering my questions and digging into the specifications and source code with me: Larry Sullivan, Jim Miller, Bill Evans, Chris Brumme, Mei-Chin Tsai, Erik Meijer, Thorsten Brunklaus, Ronald Laeremans, Kevin Ransom, Suzanne Cook, Shajan Dasan, Craig Sinclair, and many others.