Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft.net Development Series)

This book/DVD package teaches developers the best practices for designing system frameworks and reusable libraries for use with Microsoft .NET Framework and WinFX. The book features boxed annotations to the guidelines by members of various Microsoft .NET teams, discussing the motives behind the guidelines and giving examples of good reasons for breaking the rules. The companion DVD contains videos of instructional presentations by the authors on design guidelines for developing classes and components that extend the .NET framework. A sample API specification is also included. Cwalina and Abrams are affiliated with Microsoft Corporation. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Brad Abrams was a founding member of the Common Language Runtime and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation. He has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 and is currently Group Program Manager of the .NET Framework team. Brad started his framework design career building the Base Class Library (BCL) that ships as a core part of the .NET Framework. Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard. Brad has authored and coauthored multiple publications, including Programming in the .NET Environment and .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volumes 1 and 2. Brad graduated from North Carolina State University with a B.S. in computer science. You can find his most recent musings on his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA.

Krzysztof Cwalina is a program manager on the .NET Framework team at Microsoft. He was a founding member of the .NET Framework team and throughout his career has designed many .NET Framework APIs and framework development tools, such as FxCop. He is currently leading a companywide effort to develop, promote, and apply framework design and architectural guidelines to the .NET Framework. He is also leading the team responsible for delivering core .NET Framework APIs. Krzysztof graduated with a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Iowa. You can find his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina.