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I'm positive that this guide existed, but my Google skills seem to be broken today. Could you show me the link to the MSDN pointing to that section?

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  • Not deleting yet as others may have the same kind of acute google-disablement. If this question is considered useless, I'll just delete it. – mafu Nov 10 '09 at 09:58

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As you figured out yourself, the article you were originally looking for is called Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries on the MSDN.

Note that it also exists a great complete book on the very same topic, named Framework Design Guidelines. Actually, the MSDN page encourages you to have a look at this book if you want to go deeper:

For more information on design guidelines, see the "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries" book by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams, published by Addison-Wesley, 2005.

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  • What is the relationship between the topic in the MSDN and this book? – mafu Nov 11 '09 at 16:56
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    The relationship? Well the topic is the same, authors are likely the same. The article on the MSDN is a light version of the book. Many portions of the MSDN article come from the book actually. – Romain Verdier Nov 11 '09 at 18:55
  • So basically it's a must-read for any serious developer. – mafu Nov 13 '09 at 12:44
  • I'll gladly accept this answer if you add the link found in my answer. – mafu Nov 13 '09 at 12:45
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It's called "Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries" and can be found here in the MSDN

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