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Essential .NET will enable developers to take advantage of the full power available to them in Microsoft .NET. It goes far beyond the features-based "how-to" books currently on the market to also explain the "why" behind C #, .NET, and the CLR. As with all of Don's books, it is packed with practical detail and expert advice. It promises to be the book developers will reach for first with questions about the CLR and .NET. In his new position at Microsoft Don is even better placed to evangelize for this book. He will be speaking everywhere, and will continue placing articles in MSDN, where he has already started excerpting this book. Since this book was first announced last fall, there has been a groundswell of interest in it. There will be a foreword from Jim Miller, the inventor of the CLR. Originally appeared in October 2001 catalog.
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"Don taught me stuff I didn't know about my own product! And I bet he'll teach you something, too."
—From the Foreword by James Miller, Lead Program Manager, Common Language Runtime, Microsoft Corporation
Essential .NET, Volume 1, provides everything developers need to take full advantage of the power of Microsoft .NET. This book describes, in depth, the glue of the .NET Framework: the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Box and Sells explain the inner workings of the CLR—the rationale behind its design, the problems it solves, and the role of type in CLR programming—and show readers how to build better applications using the .NET Framework while gaining a more complete understanding of how the CLR works.
The book is packed with the practical detail and expert advice only Don Box can provide. Topics covered include:
- CLR's evolution
- Assemblies in the .NET Framework
- The CLR type system
- Programming with type
- Objects and values
- Methods
- Explicit method invocation
- Application domains
- Security
- Interoperability
Essential .NET, Volume 1, is an authoritative guide to the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime.
Books in the Microsoft .NET Development Series are written and reviewed by the principal authorities and pioneering developers of the Microsoft .NET technologies, including the Microsoft .NET development team and DevelopMentor. Books in the Microsoft .NET Development Series focus on the design, architecture, and implementation of the Microsoft .NET initiative to empower developers and students everywhere with the knowledge they need to thrive in the Microsoft .NET revolution.
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Essential .Net not only provides great detail and insight into the underlying machinery, it very quickly provides the reader with absolute gems of information - in particular Type checking performance with isinst and castclass. It keeps on giving with wonderful explanations of metadata, messages as method calls, memory management and performance, security and permissions, and the list goes on. We all know that the CLR provides very rich services to the modern developer, we now know how, and at what cost. This is an invaluable resource.
Admittedly the assumption is made that the reader has some technical knowledge and ability in the .Net arena as not all concepts are spoon-fed, however the kind of information presented here is targetted to those who intend to maximise this knowledge and create better software - it is not for the raw beginner. Having said that, I would still recommend this to beginners and those new to .Net wherein this book shows people where their attention should be focussed and where they should reinforce their knowledge.
I couldn't put this one down when I first got it. Buy it now!
Ok, first things first. Some of the negative reviews saying this book is worthless are totally misguided.
This book is simply a top draw master piece. Yes it's a bit long in the tooth, but still worth paying for - period.
The content of this book is what I would call exceptional. People who disagree are entitled to their opinion but my suspicions are they're not reading it correctly. You have to concentrate and read slow since it's compacted with excellent info.
There are some things in the book that are not covered 100%. I found that I had to look a bit deeper by searching the msdn website - but that was really because I'm quite pedantic with details. I have no problem with that.
On par with Jeff Richters CLR via C#.
Mr Box & Mr Ritcher are Gods. Period.
Do yourself a favour and buy this book. You'll get a good second hand price too! Everyone wins!!
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