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Exploring the .NET boot process via host tracing
In this post we enable host tracing and use that to understand how a .NET app boots up via the dotnet muxer, hostfxr, and hostpolicy.dll…
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Easier reflection with [UnsafeAccessorType] in .NET 10
Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 9
In this post I show how to work with [UnsafeAccessor] to do 'easier' reflection and how to use .NET 10's [UnsafeAccessorType] with types you can't reference…
sleep-pc: a .NET Native AOT tool to make Windows sleep after a timeout
In this post I describe a small native AOT .NET tool that I built to force a Windows PC to go to sleep after a timer expires…
Supporting platform-specific .NET tools on old .NET SDKs
Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 8
In this post I look at the advantages, trade-offs, and implications of the new platform-specific .NET tool feature added in .NET 10, and how to support old SDKs…
Packaging self-contained and native AOT .NET tools for NuGet
Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 7
In this post we look at the new support for platform-specific .NET tools, so that you can pack your tools as self-contained or Native AOT packages…
Using and authoring .NET tools
In this post I describe some of the complexities around authoring .NET tools, specifically around supporting multiple .NET runtimes and testing in CI…
