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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, Second Edition
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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, Second Edition

by Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams
October 2008
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
9h 38m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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5 Member Design

METHODS, PROPERTIES, EVENTS, constructors, and fields are collectively referred to as members. Members are ultimately the means by which framework functionality is exposed to the end users of a framework.

Members can be virtual or nonvirtual, concrete or abstract, static or instance, and can have several different scopes of accessibility. All this variety provides incredible expressiveness but at the same time requires care on the part of the framework designer.

This chapter offers basic guidelines that should be followed when designing members of any type. Chapter 6 spells out additional guidelines related to members that need to support extensibility.

5.1 General Member Design Guidelines

Most member design guidelines are specific ...

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