January 2007 - Posts

How to Design Exception Hierarchies
30 January 07 11:47 AM | kcwalina | 12 Comments   

I still get a lot of questions on how to design exception hierarchies, despite several attempts to describe it in talks, the FDG book, and in posts on this blog. Maybe the guidance gets lots in the in the complexities of the full guidance surrounding Read More...

Filed under: Design Guidelines, General API Design, General Programming

.NET Framework Performance Signatures
26 January 07 04:52 PM | kcwalina | 5 Comments   

I love Rico’s performance quizzes in general, but the last one has something especially interesting: a link to a file listing all members in the Framework and their estimated performance signatures (perf characteristic based on the number of allocations Read More...

Filed under: General API Design, General Programming