Quiz: What runs before Main()?

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Techy News Blog » Quiz: What runs before Main()? — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:13:45 GMT

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re: Quiz: What runs before Main()?

GP — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:52:31 GMT

for Nr 2 (managed Code in the CLR's startup path) I cannot get the point. In theroy (that the CLR injects some managed code) it sounds ok.

Maybe just the example is misleading, because System.Security.PermissionSet..cctor is just the class constructor (static constructor) of PermissionSet. So a do not see a difference from Nr 1.

Or did you meen that the cctor is called without a _direct_ reference from Main()? If yes: Where is this call issued? It is hardcoded within the (unmanged) CLR Code? Or is it caused by the initalization of the AppDomain Instance?

re: Quiz: What runs before Main()?

jmstall — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:52:44 GMT

GP - #2 as a cctor is less distinct than #1. In previous CLR versions, it used to be something like "AppDomain::Setup".

Regardless, it's still issued without a direct reference by Main(). These sort of calls can occur from the CLR.

re: Quiz: What runs before Main()?

Yuhong Bao — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:32:02 GMT

MC++? Is that really C++/CLI?

re: Quiz: What runs before Main()?

jmstall — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:11:42 GMT

Yuhong - essentially yes. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/PureC/ for more.