Writing a .NET profiler in C# — Part 3

March 03 2023

Part 3 of the series about using NativeAOT to write a .NET profiler in C#, learning many things about native interop in the process. In this part, we write a source generator to automatically generate the boilerplate code needed to implement the ICorProfilerCallback interface.

Reading .NET performance counters without the PerfCounter API

February 12 2023

A faster and safer way to read .NET performance counters from within.

Writing a .NET profiler in C# — Part 2

January 11 2023

Part 2 of the series about using NativeAOT to write a .NET profiler in C#, learning many things about native interop in the process. In this part, we improve the code from the previous article by using instance methods instead of static methods.

Using GC.KeepAlive in async methods

September 05 2022

GC.KeepAlive may not work the way you intend when using it in async methods.

Why function pointers can't be used on instance methods in C#

July 26 2022

The C# specification indicates that function pointers can only be used on static methods. This article explains why.

Writing a .NET profiler in C# - Part 1

July 11 2022

Part 1 of the series about using NativeAOT to write a .NET profiler in C#, learning many things about native interop in the process. In this part, we will see how to mimic a COM interface in C#.