Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, 3rd Edition
by Krzysztof Cwalina, Jeremy Barton, Brad Abrams
Foreword
When we designed the .NET platform, we wanted it to be the most productive platform for enterprise application development of the time. Twenty years ago, that meant client-server applications hosted on dedicated hardware.
Today, we find ourselves in the midst of one of the biggest paradigm shifts in the industry: the move to cloud computing. Such transformations bring new opportunities for businesses but can be tricky for existing platforms, as they need to adapt to often different requirements imposed by the new kinds of applications that developers want to write.
The .NET platform has transitioned quite successfully, and I think one of the main reasons is that we designed it carefully and deliberately, focusing not only on productivity, ...
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