This is a book about getting the best out of .NET. It is based on the philosophy that the best approach to writing good, high-performance, robust applications that take full advantage of the features of .NET is to understand what's going on deep under the hood. This means that there are chapters that explore the .NET internals and in particular Common Intermediate Language (CIL), as well as chapters with a very practical basis, covering how to use specific technologies such as threading, dynamic code generation, and WMI.