Krzysztof Cwalina, author of the book Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries has released a second revision of the Framework Design Guidelines Digest.
I’ve read Framework Design Guidelines a couple of years back and learned a whole lot from it. It definitely makes it to my top 5.
However, I’ve had problems convincing my staff members to read it, as it contains~400 pages of design tips, which are quite hard to read in succession.
The Framework Design Guidelines Digest narrows the basics down to 9 pages. I recommend everyone to download and read it every once in a while.
Quoting Krzysztof:
This document is a distillation and a simplification of the most basic guidelines described in detail in a book titled Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams. Framework Design Guidelines were created in the early days of .NET Framework development. They started as a small set of naming and design conventions but have been enhanced, scrutinized, and refined to a point where they are generally considered the canonical way to design frameworks at Microsoft. They carry the experience and cumulative wisdom of thousands of developer hours over several versions of the .NET Framework.
Get it here.
