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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
Duck Notation
I have been working with the C# and VB teams on design guidelines for LINQ. We started to talk about the so called Query Pattern , which describes what you need to do if you want a custom type to support the new query operators (select, where, group by, Read More...
Posted 18 July 07 11:20 by kcwalina | 36 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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Clearing Enum Flags
UPDATE: It looks like I am confusing a lot of people with this article. I wanted to write an article about something else than the title suggests (how flags enum are built) but I did not explain it well and what’s more important I forgot to mention the Read More...
Posted 29 August 06 09:49 by kcwalina | 4 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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