Framework layout guidance, moment Edition, teaches builders the easiest practices for designing reusable libraries for the Microsoft .NET Framework. multiplied and up-to-date for .NET 3.5, this re-creation makes a speciality of the layout matters that without delay impact the programmability of a category library, in particular its publicly obtainable APIs.

This booklet can increase the paintings of any .NET developer generating code that different builders will use. It contains copious annotations to the tips via thirty-five widespread architects and practitioners of the .NET Framework, offering a full of life dialogue of the explanations for the tips in addition to examples of whilst to wreck these guidelines.

Microsoft architects Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams train framework layout from the pinnacle down. From their major mixed adventure and deep perception, you are going to learn

• The common philosophy and primary ideas of framework layout
• Naming guidance for a few of the elements of a framework
• Guidelines for the layout and lengthening of varieties and participants of varieties
• Issues affecting–and instructions for ensuring–extensibility
• How (and how not) to layout exceptions
• Guidelines for–and examples of–common framework layout patterns

Guidelines during this booklet are offered in 4 significant varieties: Do, contemplate, Avoid, and Do not. those directives support concentration realization on practices that are supposed to always be used, those who may still generally be used, those who may still rarely be used, and people who may still never be used. each guide encompasses a dialogue of its applicability, and such a lot contain a code instance to assist remove darkness from the dialogue.

Framework layout directions, moment Edition, is the one definitive resource of most sensible practices for controlled code API improvement, direct from the architects themselves.

A better half DVD contains the Designing .NET classification Libraries video sequence, educational shows by way of the authors on layout guidance for constructing sessions and parts that stretch the .NET Framework. A pattern API specification and different invaluable assets and instruments also are included.