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I am looking for a disassembler or better, a decompiler for .net. The situation is that the source code for an assembly written by one of my predecessors is lost and I'd like to take a look to see what it's doing. I know that ildasm comes with the Visual Studio installation so I can get at the MSIL, but I was hoping there was a program clever enough to work back to the C# code (or best approximation). Are there any tools for this out there? (If not, I suppose it'll be a good excuse for me to sit down and start to learn MSIL) Have you looked at Reflector? http://www.red-gate.com/products

What does beforefieldinit flag do? When I look into the IL of my class I see this flag but I don't know what this flag is actually doing? See my article on this very issue. Basically, beforefieldinit means "the type can be initialized at any point before any static fields are referenced." In theory that means it can be very lazily initialized - if you call a static method which doesn't touch any fields, the JIT doesn't need to initialize the type. In practice it means that the class is initialized earlier than it would be otherwise - it's okay for it to be initialized at the start of the first

Using the new async/await model it's fairly straightforward to generate a Task that is completed when an event fires; you just need to follow this pattern: public class MyClass { public event Action OnCompletion; } public static Task FromEvent(MyClass obj) { TaskCompletionSource<object> tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<object>(); obj.OnCompletion += () => { tcs.SetResult(null); }; return tcs.Task; } This then allows: await FromEvent(new MyClass()); The problem is that you need to create a new FromEvent method for every event in every class that you would like to await on. That could get really

What I want to do is change how a C# method executes when it is called, so that I can write something like this: [Distributed] public DTask<bool> Solve(int n, DEvent<bool> callback) { for (int m = 2; m < n - 1; m += 1) if (m % n == 0) return false; return true; } At run-time, I need to be able to analyse methods that have the Distributed attribute (which I already can do) and then insert code before the body of the function executes and after the function returns. More importantly, I need to be able to do it without modifying code where Solve is called or at the start of the function (at