The Microsoft NGWS System and Tools Developers Documentation provides developers with information on how to use NGWS technologies to develop applications.

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The Microsoft NGWS System and Tools Developers Documentation is stored as HTML documents located in the Docs directory. To help you locate the documentation you are looking for; the documents are grouped by Topic Area. You can view the docs from here by clicking on the following links.

Administration

Assembly Metadata Unmanaged API This document details the unmanaged API for working with Assembly Metadata.

Developer Services

Debugging API This specification identifies several scenarios in which the interfaces of the Debug API will be used, and explains which interfaces will be used for each scenario. In addition, it briefly describes each debugging interface by category and lists the supported methods.

Debugging Services This document describes the Debugging Services for languages that support it.

IL DASM Advanced Options This document describes the advanced command line switches and features for use with the ILDASM SDK tool.

Profiling API This document details the interfaces, provided by the Runtime, to access such information.

Unmanaged Symbolic Information Interfaces This document describes a set of unmanaged interfaces that can be used by tool developers to read or write symbolic information.

Execution Engine

Execution Engine Architecture This document provides an overview of the execution engine (EE) which manages the execution of source code after being compiled into Intermediate Language (IL), OptIL, or native machine code.

IL Assembler Reference This document provides an overview of NGWS runtime Intermediate Language (IL) assembler.

IL Instruction Set This specification is a detailed description of the NGWS runtime Intermediate Language (IL) instruction set.

File Formats

Metadata API This document specifies the API for emitting and importing metadata.

PE File Format This specification encompasses a description of the following: header and tags; metadata; IL and native code structures; issues of reordering and fix-ups.

Metadata Structures This specification dcouments the structures used in Metadata.

Interoperability

Platform Invoke Metadata Guide This spec is aimed at compiler writers who will be emitting COM+ metadata for Platform Invocation services.

Security

Declarative Security This specification provides background information on COM+2.0 security declarations and annotations that software development tools should support.