Remembering the Future

The full .NET Framework Design Guidelines document consists of more than 200 pages of detailed prescriptive guidance. In can be accesses at MSDN. This document is a distilled version highlighting the most important of those guidelines. Moving to a managed execution environment (the .NET Framework) offers an opportunity to improve the programming model. For several reasons, we strongly advise designers to treat the Design Guidelines as if they were prescriptive. We believe that developer productivity can be seriously hampered by inconsistent design.

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