May 2005 - Posts

Should Exceptions Carry Error Code Information
Recently somebody asked me to clarify one of the exception guidelines . They were asking whether it's ok to have a property on exception types that provides access to an error code. I added the following annotation to one of the guidelines: Do not return Read More...
Posted 27 May 05 03:10 by kcwalina | 5 Comments   
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Generic interfaces, IsReadOnly, IsFixedSize, and array
Peter Golde recently posted about the IsReadOnly and IsFixedSize change we made to the generic collection interfaces.There are also several other discussions around the net on this topic. I thought I write up something to explain the motivation and our Read More...
Posted 18 May 05 11:32 by kcwalina | 10 Comments   
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API Usability Studies
I have received several comments asking what usability studies are and how to conduct them. Steven’s blog is one of the best sources of information on API usability studies. In particular the recent post on HOWTO: Run an API usability study . Read More...
Posted 13 May 05 11:43 by kcwalina | 0 Comments   
Design Guidelines Book (The Principle of Scenario-Driven Design)
The Design Guidelines have been published on MSDN and as a part of the CLI ECMA specification ( Partition V , Annex D). This was long time ago and we have been receiving lots of requests for an update and also for something that can be read offline. So, Read More...
Posted 05 May 05 03:04 by kcwalina | 10 Comments   
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