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Member Design Guidelines

.NET Framework 4

Types and interfaces are composed of members which can be any of the following:

Methods
Properties
Constructors
Events
Fields

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.

In This Section

Member Overloading: Describes guidelines for overloaded members.
Implementing Interface Members Explicitly: Describes guidelines for explicit interface implementations.
Choosing Between Properties and Methods: Describes guidelines for determining when to implement functionality as a property versus a method.
Property Design: Describes guidelines for implementing properties.
Constructor Design: Describes guidelines for implementing constructors.
Event Design: Describes guidelines for implementing events.
Field Design: Describes guidelines for defining fields.
Operator Overloads: Describes guidelines for overloading operators.
Conversion Operators: Describes guidelines for implementing conversion operators.
Parameter Design: Describes guidelines for defining parameters.

Other Resources

Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries

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