I guess that the first step after getting the general idea which is behind object oriented programming is to get a deeper understanding of "design patterns".

"Thinking in Patterns" is a (free) ebook by Bruce Eckels. I used to recommend it to a lot of people during the last months and recently came across it again. This book is a great explanation of design patterns in OO development/design and even though its examples are in Java this ought to be a mandatory read for every .NET developer ... ;-)

During the last days, I've been browsing the web in search for some detailed information about the CLR and especially about x86 Assembler so that I might be able to reproduce several internals.

What got me started in the first place was John Lam's weblog at http://www.iunknown.com especially his article about Interface dispatch vs. object reference dispatch and the entry about real cost of dispatching virtual methods using an interface reference.

As a starting point, I used Matt Pietrek's site http://www.wheaty.net/ which has a lot of links to some "Under the Hood" MSDN columns he wrote throughout the years. Especially "Matt's Just Enough Assembly Language To Get By"  Part I and Part II were quite helpful (don't be afraid about the fact they've been published in '98 - Assembly language concepts just don't change as often as higher level development concepts do ;-))

I also ordered "Inside Microsoft Windows 2000"  from David Solomon and Mark Russinovich even though I won't have too much time to read it in the next weeks as I'm currently about to work on the last chapters of my own book.

Some of you might have been wondering why the number of new articles at dotnetremoting.cc has been a little small during the last weeks. The reason is that I'm currently finishing the last chapters of my book "Advanced .NET Remoting" which will be published in May 2002 by Apress. You can read more about this book here.

In the meantime, I want to assure you that I will be posting new content here as well and that you can expect some excerpts of the books to be online even before publication! (To get an information by email as soon as this is done, simply register for the "updates" on the right of www.dotnetremoting.cc).

If you're from central Europe, it would also be great to meet you at Basta!2002 in Munich/Europe, where I'll do three talks on .NET Remoting on 2/27 and 28. You can read more about those here (German!).

As always ... if you have any questions regarding this site, the book or the conference, don't hestitate to send me an email!