Foreword

Walking down the aisle of your favorite bookstore, you will find numerous books covering various aspects of Microsoft's new .NET strategy. But unlike most of those books, .NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed focuses squarely on the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Regardless of the language you use or the type of application you are building, .NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed offers a rare insight into how your application and the CLR operate. It offers a perspective that nearly every developer who is using the CLR will find valuable.

What exactly is the CLR? I've spent the past four years explaining that to thousands of developers. From a technical perspective, four key aspects of the CLR make it interesting: the type system (covered ...

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