Framework Design Guidelines Conventions,

Lead developers on the .NET team teach best practices for designing system frameworks and reusable libraries for use with .NET.

Brad Abrams was a founding member of the Common Language Runtime and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation. He has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 and is currently Group Program Manager of the .NET Framework team. Brad started his framework design career building the Base Class Library (BCL) that ships as a core part of the .NET Framework. Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard. Brad has authored and coauthored multiple publications, including Programming in the .NET Environment and .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volumes 1 and 2. Brad graduated from North Carolina State University with a B.S. in computer science. You can find his most recent musings on his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA.

Krzysztof Cwalina is a program manager on the .NET Framework team at Microsoft. He was a founding member of the .NET Framework team and throughout his career has designed many .NET Framework APIs and framework development tools, such as FxCop. He is currently leading a companywide effort to develop, promote, and apply framework design and architectural guidelines to the .NET Framework. He is also leading the team responsible for delivering core .NET Framework APIs. Krzysztof graduated with a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Iowa. You can find his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina.

Figures	p. xvii
Tables	p. xix
Foreword	p. xxi
Foreword to the First Edition	p. xxiii
Preface	p. xxv
Acknowledgments	p. xxxi
About the Authors	p. xxxiii
About the Annotators	p. xxxv
Introduction	p. 1
Qualities of a Well-Designed Framework	p. 3
Framework Design Fundamentals	p. 9
Progressive Frameworks	p. 11
Fundamental Principles of Framework Design	p. 14
Naming Guidelines	p. 37
Capitalization Conventions	p. 38
General Naming Conventions	p. 46
Names of Assemblies and DLLs	p. 54
Names of Namespaces	p. 56
Names of Classes, Structs, and Interfaces	p. 60
Names of Type Members	p. 68
Naming Parameters	p. 73
Naming Resources	p. 74
Type Design Guidelines	p. 77
Types and Namespaces	p. 79
Choosing Between Class and Struct	p. 84
Choosing Between Class and Interface	p. 88
Abstract Class Design	p. 95
Static Class Design	p. 97
Interface Design	p. 98
Struct Design	p. 101
Enum Design	p. 103
Nested Types	p. 115
Types and Assembly Metadata	p. 118
Member Design	p. 121
General Member Design Guidelines	p. 121
Property Design	p. 138
Constructor Design	p. 144
Event Design	p. 153
Field Design	p. 159
Extension Methods	p. 162
Operator Overloads	p. 168
Parameter Design	p. 175
Designing for Extensibility	p. 193
Extensibility Mechanisms	p. 193
Base Classes	p. 206
Sealing	p. 207
Exceptions	p. 211
Exception Throwing	p. 216
Choosing the Right Type of Exception to Throw	p. 221
Using Standard Exception Types	p. 234
Designing Custom Exceptions	p. 239
Exceptions and Performance	p. 240
Usage Guidelines	p. 245
Arrays	p. 245
Attributes	p. 247
Collections	p. 250
DateTime and DateTimeOffset	p. 261
ICloneable	p. 263
IComparable and IEquatable	p. 264
IDisposable	p. 266
Nullable	p. 266
Object	p. 268
Serialization	p. 274
Uri	p. 283
System.Xml Usage	p. 284
Equality Operators	p. 286
Common Design Patterns	p. 289
Aggregate Components	p. 289
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