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.