.NET Book

This book was thought as a full description of how .NET CLR and to some extent .NET Framework function. I tried to draw the reader's attention to their internals from a different, unusual point of view. Primarily, it is caused by the statement, quite disputable, that any software developer must know C/C++. Why? The reason is that among all high-level languages these are the nearest to the CPU, and if you build your program in these languages you feel better about how it runs. However, our world looks different than we expect and we often have no time to learn things we won't use; that's why I decided to write this book where issues are explained deeper than usual and with a more intricate or alternative example. Beyond their standard goal, to show a specific functionality with a simple code, these examples pave the way to alternative reality by showing that things may turn out to be more complicated than they seem. With that in mind, you will feel how every single cog works in CLR.