Many assume that the Design Guidelines document is intended to be a repository of the best solutions to common API design problems. Let me get it straight right away. This is not the intention at all. The main purpose of the Design Guidelines is to achieve...

Generics is a new feature added to the Whidbey CLR and languages. We are still learning the best way to take advantage of the feature in reusable library APIs. The guidelines below represent out current thinking in this area. 1.0 Generics A new...

The .NET Framework documentation on MSDN has a section describing the design guidelines for managed library developers . The section is based on an internal document that I help to create and maintain. The internal document is being constantly and frequently...