I've been presuaded to bring out my Hardcore .NET (CLR Internals) out of retirement for DevTeach again this year. This post will be a record of trying to get an environment up and going..... Will it work on Vista? Does he still have his CLR chops? Stay tuned...

Rotor

• You need to install ActivePerl 5.8.8 first
• Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0 Rotor V2 Download

Tools

• ILDASM
• Reflector
• Reflector File Dissembler
• PE Browse Professional Dissembler
• PE Browse Professional Interactive Win32 Debugger/Dissembler
• ASMEX Free-Source .NET Assembly/PE File Analyzer
• CECIL library for IL gen/inspect
• ClassMaster
• Dis# .NET Decompiler
• Decompiler.NET
• F# Assembly Explorer

I'm rocking out to Heartbreak Beat by The Psychedelic Furs from the album Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live

Rotor on Vista Log

• Following "old" directions from Ted's book; Downloaded Gzip from here and Tar from here
• C:\Rotor>gzip -dc sscli20_20060311.tgz | tar xvf -

C:\Rotor\sscli20>env checked
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 x86 tools.
32-bit build
Checked Environment
Building for Operating System - NT32
             Processor Family - x86
                    Processor - i386
                   Build Type - chk

C:\Rotor\sscli20>buildall

Time for a very long coffee break unless something breaks :)

Wow, it built on Vista and the build time was pretty fast with this machine!

BUILD: Saving C:\Rotor\sscli20\build.dat...
BUILD: Compiling c:\rotor\sscli20\tools\ildbconv directory
1>Compiling - ildbconv.cpp for i386
1>Building Browse File - ildbconv.cpp for all platforms
BUILD: Linking c:\rotor\sscli20\tools\ildbconv directory
1>Linking Executable - objc\rotor_x86\ildbconv.exe for i386
BUILD: Done

    2 files compiled
    1 executable built
    1 browse database built
    1 file binplaced

C:\Rotor\sscli20>clix
Managed application launcher.

Usage: clix managed_exe [optional arguments to the exe]

C:\Rotor\sscli20>csc -?
Microsoft (R) Shared Source CLI C# Compiler version 2.0.0001
for Microsoft (R) Shared Source CLI version 2.0.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

                      Visual C# 2005 Compiler Options

using System;
public class TestRotor {
    public static void Main() {
 System.Console.WriteLine("This is only a test; if this had been a real program...");
    }
}

C:\Rotor\sscli20>csc -t:exe -debug HelloBlog.cs
Microsoft (R) Shared Source CLI C# Compiler version 2.0.0001
for Microsoft (R) Shared Source CLI version 2.0.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Rotor\sscli20>clix HelloBlog.exe
This is only a test; if this had been a real program...

Done!

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