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API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

The API usability portion of the Designing .NET Class Libraries class will be available from tomorrow. Apologies in advance if my Scottish accent makes it difficult to understand me! Let me know if there is anything that I need to translate...

Published Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:30 PM by stevencl
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# re: API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

Less talky talky, more worky worky please.
Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:38 PM by Meeting

# re: API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

link.expose(); // :)
Saturday, February 19, 2005 7:42 AM by Anon...

# re: API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

It's not on the list yet. :-(
Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:54 PM by Sean Chase

# re: API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

Sorry folks, I'm trying to find out what the problem is at the moment. Hopefully the link will be up soon.
Monday, February 21, 2005 10:38 AM by Steven Clarke

# re: API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

I'm not surprised, they have been late posting all the previous links.
Monday, February 21, 2005 2:42 PM by Jonathan Allen

# re: API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

I was hoping to watch this one this weekend, hope it comes soon!
Monday, February 21, 2005 3:12 PM by Chris Haas

# re: API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

Well, it's up now, and it was very nice.

Would love to see more examples of poor vs good api design. (I'm a learn-by-example kinda guy).

Ah, and one thing that I would love to see a comment from you on is Factory/Builder patterns. In the talk you mention that requiring Factory can be a barrier to certain learning strategies. We tend to require use Factory extensively in order to support configurability, so I'm kinda curious as to how worried I should be.

(Probably not very worried - since we have much bigger fish to worry about in our APIs)
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:34 PM by Christian Mogensen

# re: API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow

Good material for a good series of talks!

Only one suggestion... I found the CD concept impressive and would have enjoyed seeing a case study from one of your team's assignments.

BTW, I know from experience much of what you recommend is true. Just wish I'd heard your talk several years ago. :-)
Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:01 AM by Experienced Component Developer

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Friday, March 04, 2005 6:21 PM by Andrew Baum
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