.NET Design Guidelines

Author: Krzysztof Cwalina
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Winner of the 2006 Jolt Productivity Award! A distillation of wisdom from the .NET Framework design team at Microsoft, offering an inside look at .NET technology. This book is a must-read for .NET developers. It includes numerous annotations that explain the pros and cons of corresponding specifications, introduce their history, provide further clarification, and offer critical insights. All annotations come from experienced framework designers, industry experts, and users, bringing firsthand stories that enrich many of the book's specifications. This book provides an authoritative guide for framework designers and developers to design high-quality software. It introduces best practices for framework design, offering top-down specifications that are generally applicable to frameworks and software of varying scales and reusability. These specifications have been refined through the long-term development of three versions of the .NET Framework, embodying the experience and wisdom of thousands of developers. Microsoft's development teams are using these specifications to create the next generation of software products that will impact the world. This book is suitable for framework designers and related technical professionals, as well as students and teachers in relevant fields at universities for reference.