Framework Design Guidelines

Framework Design Guidelines

By Doug Holland (Intel) (246 posts) on December 16, 2009 at 10:17 am

Tonight I'll be presenting at the Microsoft San Francisco, CA office for the Bay.NET User Group, this time discussing the best practices for Structured Exception Handling (SEH), based in part upon the Framework Design Guidelines book by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams.

If you're developing code with the Microsoft .NET Framework, regardless of whether you're a framework developer or an application developer, I would highly recommend that you and everyone on your team has access to this book. It is an invaluable resource when developing code for using the Microsoft .NET Framework and unlike many other books that are written primarily by one or two authors, this book contains critical insight of many influential practitioners within and beyond Microsoft.

Categories: Parallel Programming, Software Engineering

Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both clients and web based applications as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET, Atlas, and Windows Forms. Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library) that ship 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 been deeply involved with the WinFX and Windows Vista efforts from their beginning. Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1 and Vol2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.