---
title: "Free chapter from \"Essential .Net\" by Don Box"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/22/free-chapter-from-quotessential-netquot-by-don-box.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/22/free-chapter-from-quotessential-netquot-by-don-box.html"
published: "2003-09-22T16:37:00"
updated: "2003-09-22T16:37:00"
tags: ["Free book chapters"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Found this out through the DOTNET-CLR mailing list: You can read a free chapter from Don Box 's latest book Essential .Net, Volume 1 , over at Amazon . Looks very promising. it's chapter 3 and it's called “ Type Basics…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Free chapter from "Essential .Net" by Don Box

By Roy Osherove September 22, 2003 In [Free book chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 22, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Found this out through the DOTNET-CLR mailing list: You can read a [free chapter](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201734117/iserializable-20) from [Don Box](http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/)'s latest book [Essential .Net, Volume 1](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201734117/iserializable-20), over at [Amazon](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/22/www.amazon.com). Looks very promising. it's chapter 3 and it's called “_Type Basics_” but I fear that “basics” is hardly the word to describe it. **Excellent** :)

**Update:**

_Download Ch 2 (Components) here -_ [_http://www.aw-bc.com/samplechapter/0201734117.pdf_](http://www.aw-bc.com/samplechapter/0201734117.pdf)

\[ [SBC](https://osherove.com/sbchatterjee/) \]

Excellent!

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