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Visual Studio/RAD support for coding directly in IL?


For the longest time I've been curious to code directly in Intermediate Language as an academic endeavour, to gain a better understanding of what's happening "under the hood".

Does anybody provide Visual Studio support for *IL in the form of: project templates, IntelliSense and RAD tool integration?

Edits: I don't mean restricted to out-of-the-box features. For example, I can download Visual Studio extensions to support Python, COBOL, etc. Looking for the same for *IL.

There is a stand-alone Intermediate Assembler tool so the ability to code and compile it already exists outside Visual Studio.


Solution

  • Wanting the same thing for a long time, I finally decided to make one. It supports syntax highlighting for IL files (.il) and includes projects with full debugging support for C#, F# and Visual Basic that support embedding and calling IL code directly.

    IL Support extension

    Enjoy!