Member Design Guidelines 

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

• Methods

• Properties

• Constructors

• Events

• Fields

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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.

Reference

Related Sections

• .NET Framework Class Library Reference
  Documents each of the public classes that constitute the .NET Framework.

• Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries
  Describes the best practices for class library development.