Question

I’m positive that this guide existed, but my Google skills seem to be broken today. Could you show me the link to the MSDN pointing to that section?

Answer 1

As you figured out yourself, the article you were originally looking for is called Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries on the MSDN.

Note that it also exists a great complete book on the very same topic, named Framework Design Guidelines. Actually, the MSDN page encourages you to have a look at this book if you want to go deeper:

For more information on design
guidelines, see the “Framework Design
Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and
Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries”
book by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad
Abrams, published by Addison-Wesley,
2005.

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