Type Design Guidelines 

The guidelines presented in this section help library designers choose between various designs and implement types correctly.

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For more information on design guidelines, see the "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries" book by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams, published by Addison-Wesley, 2005.

In This Section

  • Types and Namespaces
    Describes guidelines for organizing types and namespaces for discoverability.
  • Nested Types
    Describes guidelines for designing nested types.

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