Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This content is found in the Framework Design Principles section of Chapter 2: Framework Design Fundamentals. I love the history and real world color Chris brings to this guideline with his annotation. Some APIs lend themselves to experimentation and some do not. To be easy to experiment with, an API must do the following: Allow easy identification of the right set of types and members for common programming tasks. A namespace intended to hold common scenario APIs that contains 500 types, out of which only a handful are actually important in common scenarios, is not easy to experiment with. The same applies...(read more) ...
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