Microsoft Open-Sources their Common Compiler Infrastructure Metadata Tools

…which here at MOSA is good news. Included in this toolset is a full API, mostly managed, for reading/writing CIL
PE files, along with reading/writing Managed PDB files.

The news comes from ZDNet, but you can see it for yourself at CodePlex.

At MOSA we are still trying to analyze the feature set. The PDB reading functionality is fully managed and supposedly applies to multiple PDB format variants. The PDB writing functionality calls out to unmanaged code and is most likely not useful.

However, the BSD-compatible MS-PL this is licensed under means we can cannibalize the reading functionality and use it to learn the format well enough to be able to write PDB-writing functionality as well, for both the managed and unmanaged PDB variants.

A post-a for MOSA

This post is really meant to be a test. I'm trying to get Yahoo Pipes working for me to aggregate the blogs of the MOSA developers.

We shall see...

Swiftarrow @ Level 29

Here he be:



The haus is in teh house.

Swiftarrow has made his way down into into the Thousand Needles, accompanied by his faithful pet Yertle the Turtle. (Yertle the turtle, of enormous girth, who on his back, held the Earth. Thankee sai.)

Swiftarrow has been working on his mastering of the beasties recently, and hopes to have a shiny new Kodo to drive around in soon. Venture Co. and the Grimtotem tribe chase him with hate, whilst Ratchet and Thunderbluff revel at his presence.

Coming soon, to an instance near you.