What happens from the moment you launch a .NET Core application, until the very first managed instruction is executed ? How do we get from the simple act of running an .exe to having the managed code executing as part of a .NET Core application ?
This is what this post sets up to explain in detail, dealing with:
- Why bother going into such detail
- What are the ways to run a .NET Core app
- Ways to build the .NET Core app
- How the application actually loads once it’s run
- See compiled sample code in action
- Implication of bitness
- Base types
- How things differ from starting an app under .net framework
- The future (seen as of March 2020)
