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Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition: Order Yours Now!
Amazon just put Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition up for pre-order.  If you are coming to the PDC in LA (and there are still slots open), you can be the first to buy a copy... Amazon and your local brick-and-mortar store will have them over Read More...
FxCop 1.36 Released
David Kean announces FxCop 1.36 Release Here are a few of the goodness from David's blog: 200+ bug fixes that reduce noise, missing analysis and rule crashes Support for analyzing anonymous methods and lambda expressions New option for skipping analysis Read More...
New Tools for Framework Designers Published
Mircea recently published a set of tools we have been using recently in design and Architecture reviews of the .NET Framework.  You can download the three new tools Deps, Layering, and potentialCallers here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/fxarch Read More...
InfoQ Interview: Framework Design Studio Released
InfoQ recently did an interview with Krzysztof Cwalina about Framework Design Studio . Check it out: Framework Design Studio Released Read More...
Framework Design Studio Published
Krzysztof Cwalina and the gang have been working on a tool to make it easier for Framework designers to design, review and maintain highly usable APIs...  You have to check out Framework Design Studio .   We'd love to hear what you think!   Read More...
Stand alone FXCop download
As many of you know, FxCop is static code analysis tool that we originally wrote to ensure the .NET Framework itself adheres to the .NET Framework Design Guidelines .  The tool as been integrated into Visual Studio as the "Code Analysis" Read More...
Framework Design Guidelines: LINQ
Wow, it feels like old times ...  I am happy that we are posting a new proposal for additions to the framework design guidelines.  Mitch has worked hard on these, and we have reviewed them internally and now it is time for your comments.   Read More...
Video "Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries" posted
Krys got his very popular TechEd Europe session on framework engineering posted . Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries This session covers the main aspects of reusable library design: API design, architecture, Read More...
A couple Framework Design Tools...
Good tools are essential to good engineering... Recently I ran across a couple of good tools that will help with Framework design and implementation. NDepends - is a tool that allows you to analyze your source code in order to get a grip on what is really Read More...
FxCop Honored with Chairman's Award for Engineering Excellence
Every year, Microsoft honors a few innovations that have furthered the state of engineering excellence at Microsoft... Some years, Bill Gates selects one of the winners to honor with the special distinction of the chairman's award. I am told that Bill Read More...
Creating API Documentation
Some customers have asked my how we create our API docs internally and what tools they can use... Some of you may have already heard about Sandcastle, but I thought I'd spread the word even more.. Sandcastle enables managed class library developers throughout Read More...
Framework Design Papers
Steven Clarke (a usability researcher here at Microsoft) has published a set of very interesting papers discussing the core concepts of framework usability. I thought I'd collect them for your reading pleasure... 1. Dr. Dobbs article on Measuring Api Read More...
Free online class: Designing .NET Class Libraries
Krzysztof Cwalina (co-author of Framework Design Guidelines ) recently did a talk for the Microsoft Research Group on great framework design. Online lecture on API design I gave a lecture on framework design at the Redmond’s Microsoft Research Center. Read More...
NextGenUG PodCast
It was my good luck to run into Dave McMahon and Richard Costall from NxtGenUG today at the MVP Summit here at Microsoft… We had such a great time chatting they wanted to do a quick little interview for their podcast… Show #30 - The One With The Maracas Read More...
More Framework Design Guidelines Reviews
I just noticed Mitch posted a review of the Framework Design Guidelines . .NET Framework Design Guidelines (Book Review) Mitch gives an interesting categorization of types of tech books... While clearly our foundation in this book is towards .NET Development, Read More...
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