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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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6 Designing for Extensibility

ONE IMPORTANT ASPECT of designing a framework is making sure the extensibility of the framework has been carefully considered. This requires that you understand the costs and benefits associated with various extensibility mechanisms. This chapter helps you decide which of the extensibility mechanisms—subclassing, events, virtual members, callbacks, and so on—can best meet the requirements of your framework. This chapter does not talk about the design details of these mechanisms. Such details are discussed in other parts of the book, and this chapter simply provides cross-references to sections that describe those details.

A good understanding of OOP is a necessary prerequisite to designing an effective framework ...

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