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Framework Design Studio Released
When I was coming back from Mix 2007, I was bored on the plane and so started to write a dev tool. What a geeky thing to do on a plane. :-) The tool allows comparing two versions of an assembly to identify API differences: API additions and removals. Read More...
Posted 04 April 08 11:10 by kcwalina | 21 Comments   
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Attachment(s): FdsUsageGuide.docx
Job Openings on the .NET Framework Core Team
We have been incubating ideas about building a simple extensibility framework for some time. Now, as plans for the next version of the .NET Framework crystallize a bit more, we decided to productize the project. As a result, we have opened a job position Read More...
Posted 14 March 08 12:49 by kcwalina | 15 Comments   
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Video Recording of "Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries"
I just received a video recording of a talk I did at the last TechEd. You can find the abstract below, and the WMV file can be downloaded from here . Hope you find it useful. [UPDATE: I attched the slides in xps format. The ppt file is 10x larger] Framework Read More...
Posted 08 January 08 10:42 by kcwalina | 8 Comments   
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Attachment(s): FrameworkEngineering.xps
What Do Swimmers Have to Say About Framework Design?
I am starting to feel pressure to finish up slides for my presentation at the upcoming TechEd in Barcelona. I will be talking about framework architecture and design. Here is the abstract I took from the conference’s site : WIN304 Framework Engineering: Read More...
Posted 04 October 07 05:09 by kcwalina | 7 Comments   
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FxCop Designers Honored with the Chairman's Award
Last week, during the annual Engineering Excellence week, several Microsoft engineers and managers involved in development of engineering tools and practices were presented with Engineering Excellence Awards. In addition, the principal designers of three Read More...
Posted 03 July 07 04:21 by kcwalina | 8 Comments   
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Generic Methods as Casts
Somebody just asked me which of the following API design alternatives is better. They both do what we could call “casting.” // Generic Method “Cast” var foo = someInstance.SomeMethod<IFoo>(); // Simple Cast var foo = (IFoo) someInstance.SomeMethod(); Read More...
Posted 07 June 07 10:56 by kcwalina | 3 Comments   
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How to Design Exception Hierarchies
I still get a lot of questions on how to design exception hierarchies, despite several attempts to describe it in talks, the FDG book, and in posts on this blog. Maybe the guidance gets lots in the in the complexities of the full guidance surrounding Read More...
Posted 30 January 07 11:47 by kcwalina | 14 Comments   
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.NET Framework Performance Signatures
I love Rico’s performance quizzes in general, but the last one has something especially interesting: a link to a file listing all members in the Framework and their estimated performance signatures (perf characteristic based on the number of allocations Read More...
Posted 26 January 07 04:52 by kcwalina | 5 Comments   
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Framework Design Guidelines book went to print
I have just heard from the publisher that the Framework Design Guidelines book just went to print. To celebrate and to thank for the contributions, I thought I would blog the list of people who provided annotations for the book: Brad Abrams , Mark Alcazar, Read More...
Posted 30 August 05 04:15 by kcwalina | 5 Comments   
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