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String Usage Guidelines

Please read this first: About Dave’s ‘unofficial’ Framework Design Guidelines . ý DO NOT return a null reference ( Nothing in Visual Basic and nullptr in C++/CLI) from a string property; return an empty string instead. Users of...

ArgumentException Throwing Guidelines

Please read this first: About Dave’s ‘unofficial’ Framework Design Guidelines . þ DO throw ArgumentException or one of its subtypes for preventable errors. For example, passing a null reference ( Nothing in Visual Basic, nullptr...

Framework Design Guidelines - 2nd Edition

I just noticed that you can now pre-order the second edition of the Framework Design Guidelines. If you haven’t picked up the first edition, then I definitely recommend you grab the second edition. Congratulations to both of my colleagues, Krzysztof...