Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Investigating Performance
3. Type Design and Implementation
4. Strings, Text, and Regular Expressions
5. Collections
6. Language Specifics
7. Garbage Collection and Object Lifetime Management
8. Exceptions
9. Security
10. Threading
11. IO and Serialization
12. Remoting
13. Unmanaged Code Interoperability
14. The Common Language Runtime
15. Solving Performance Problems