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API Usability Study Article Posted
I bloged a while back about the Dr. Dobbs on Measuring API Usability . I just got permission from the nice folks at Dr. Dobbs to post the article publicly for your reading pleasure. Any teams at Microsoft you think I should print off a copy and hand-deliver Read More...
Posted 27 April 04 10:03 by BradA | 9 Comments   
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What to do about "interop" methods in WinFX
Tomorrow we have a WinFX API review for some of the windows shell team’s APIs. On one of the classes I see this set of overloads: public DialogResult ShowDialog(); public DialogResult ShowDialog(Window parentWindow); public DialogResult ShowDialog(IWin32Window Read More...
Posted 15 March 04 07:29 by BradA | 28 Comments   
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A new tool in the battle for consistency of WinFX
One of the folks on the FxCop team gave me an idea for a new tool in the battle for at least naming level consistency across WinFX. We always find ourselves asking questions about the “right” way to case certain terms. Recall the great ID Read More...
Posted 09 March 04 02:17 by BradA | 9 Comments   
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IsEnabled or Enabled
I actually got a chance to write a little WinFX code today, which was a lot of fun. But I did run across one issue that has been in the back of my mind for while. It is the “Is” prefix on Boolean properties. I started out by using the WinForms Read More...
Posted 16 February 04 09:04 by BradA | 45 Comments   
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The trick with params
I am doing some WinFX API reviews tonight and I ran across this pattern in a number of places: /*1*/ public virtual void AddNamedParameter(string parameterName); /*2*/ public virtual void AddNamedParameter(string parameterName, object parameterValue); Read More...
Posted 30 January 04 11:18 by BradA | 11 Comments   
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JohnMont on Namespaces
John got some good discussion going on namespaces -- not only on his blog but also inside Microsoft... Read More...
Posted 19 January 04 06:56 by BradA | 0 Comments   
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ChrisAn beat me to it: Uri vs Strings
Last night I caught up on a 50+ message thread over one of our design aliases with many of the “big dogs” on the WinFX team vehemently disagreeing. It is the issue of Strings vs. Uri instances . Honestly, I don’t know where I personally come down on this Read More...
Posted 13 December 03 08:04 by BradA | 0 Comments   
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The great naming debates --- still..
Some guidelines in the Design Guidelines Document and described in my blog are based on years of experience with managed code and a deep understanding of how developers think about problems and how the runtime really works… And other guidelines…well, Read More...
Posted 26 November 03 10:22 by BradA | 46 Comments   
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Properites vs. Methods...
It is an age old debate… we have some fairly good guidelines , but they certainly leave room for improvement. Today at a WinFX API review (for some cool stuff that didn’t make it out in the PDC drop) we had the debate again… Today the APIs look like: Read More...
Posted 13 November 03 02:27 by BradA | 51 Comments   
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Making WinFX great...
Very cool to see JimAll at the PDC talk about the lengths we are going to in order to make WinFX a fantastic API. I would like to invite you to be an active part of ensuring WinFX is great…. Even though the bits we are giving out to the PDC attendees Read More...
Posted 27 October 03 03:38 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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