Essential .NET, Volume 1: The Common Language Runtime

Acknowledgments

As always, my wife and children made unreasonable sacrifices for me to complete this book. In acknowledgment of this, I am taking at least a year off before I tackle another book project.

This book would never have been completed had it not been for Chris Sells. Chris was my writing partner on this project and pulled me through some very rocky times during 2001, both personally and professionally. Although Chris contributed no paragraphs to this book, his efforts are visible on every page.

Thanks go out to Jim Miller of the CLR team at Microsoft. Jim was nice enough to write the foreword for this book, and for that I am personally grateful. More importantly, however, Jim was the lead author on what I consider the most important ...