Lots of people have asked me to create a short version of the Design Guidelines. Here it is. You can also email me directly at kcwalina@microsoft.com if you would like to get an MS Word copy of the digest, hich has a bit better formatting. [UPDATE...

Kit George (member of the BCL team) blogged an update that we just did to our Design Guidelines. The new guidelines talk issues related to evolving managed APIs. See http://weblogs.asp.net/bclteam/archive/2004/09/07/226489.aspx