Designing for Extensibility 

Extensibility is the ability to add or modify the behavior of objects. There are a variety of mechanisms that you can use to make your libraries extensible. The different mechanisms each have their own costs and benefits.

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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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