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Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:20 PM

FAQ: Why does DoNotExposeGenericLists recommend that I expose Collection<T> instead of List<T>? [David Kean]

DoNotExposeGenericLists fires when I publicly expose List<T> via a field, method, property, or parameter. Why? Although Krzysztof briefly touched on this last year , we wanted to expand on this a little through the use of examples. The first reason
Posted by David M. Kean | 3 Comments
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:21 PM

FAQ: Why do some sources recommend extending ApplicationException while FxCop does not? [Michael Fanning, David Kean]

TypesShouldNotExtendCertainBaseTypes fires on types that derive from ApplicationException and DoNotRaiseReservedExceptionTypes on members that throw ApplicationException. Why? There are several outdated documents floating around on the web (some orginally
Posted by David M. Kean | 7 Comments
 
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