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.NET Framework Guidelines and Best Practices

.NET Framework 4.5

The following table provides links to topics that describe principles and procedures for implementing a variety of .NET Framework technologies. It also includes links to topics that provide tips, techniques, and advice.

Area	See
Class library design	Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries, which includes the following: Naming: Naming Guidelines Library architecture: Type Design Guidelines Member Design Guidelines Designing for Extensibility Usage: Arrays Attributes Guidelines for Collections Specific development tasks: Design Guidelines for Exceptions System.Xml Usage Equality Operators
Deployment	Best Practices for Assembly Loading
Encoding and localization	Best Practices for Developing World-Ready Applications
Events	Best Practices for Implementing the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern
Exceptions	Best Practices for Handling Exceptions
Networking	Best Practices for System.Net Classes
Reliability	Reliability
Security	Secure Coding Guidelines Security Policy Best Practices
Serialization	Serialization Guidelines
Side-by-side execution	Guidelines for Creating Components for Side-by-Side Execution
Strings	Best Practices for Using Strings in the .NET Framework
Threading	Managed Threading Best Practices
Windows Forms controls	Best Practices for Scaling the Windows Forms DataGridView Control
Windows Presentation Foundation	Guidelines for Designing Stylable Controls
XML Web Services	Design Guidelines for XML Web Services Created Using ASP.NET

Concepts

.NET Framework How-to and Walkthrough Directory

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