Today we have a guest post from Kit George who is the keeper of much of our internal Framework Design Guidelines. This is the stuff that Krys and I based a the book on. I asked Kit to post this internal information so you can get a feeling for what our guidelines are and why?. and so you can call us on it if we mess it up ;-) As always, feedback and comments are welcome! It is clear that there?s a bit of confusion over the namespace guidelines . Here is our attempt at make this clear. We know this will remain a contentious issue, but the goal of these guidelines is to clarify: The .NET platform is not limited to any one single redistributable. Types in the System.* namespace define the .NET platform. We of course carry...(read more) ...
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