Guidelines 

The following topics describe and demonstrate principles and procedures for implementing a variety of .NET Framework technologies.

Class Library Design

Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries

This reference contains the following types of guidelines:

• Naming Guidelines for Names

• Library Architecture Type Design Guidelines, Member Design Guidelines, Designing for Extensibility

• Usage Array Usage Guidelines, Attribute Usage Guidelines, Time-Out Usage

• Specific Development Tasks Design Guidelines for Exceptions, Implementing the Equals Method, Guidelines for Implementing Equals and the Equality Operator (==), Implementing Finalize and Dispose to Clean Up Unmanaged Resources

Security

Secure Coding Guidelines

Serialization

Serialization Guidelines

Serviced Components

Serviced Component Programming Guidelines

Side-by-Side Execution

Guidelines for Creating Applications and Components for Side-by-Side Execution

XML Web Services

Design Guidelines for XML Web Services Created Using ASP.NET

See Also

Other Resources

Guidelines and Best Practices