June 2004 - Posts

Delegate-Based APIs
Generics and Anonymous Methods/Delegates make up a powerful pair that can be used to create elegant query APIs. Here are some that we just added to the .NET Framework’s Collection libraries. I used List<T> to illustrate the APIs but most of Read More...
Posted 22 June 04 12:33 by kcwalina | 37 Comments   
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Design Guidelines Update: Optional Features Pattern
This is a relatively major update to the Design Guidelines. It describes and formalizes a very common .NET Framework Pattern/Idiom for exposing optional functionality/service of an API (for example canceling a stream operation, as not all streams support Read More...
Posted 17 June 04 12:40 by kcwalina | 3 Comments   
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