I finally got around to buying the Framework Design Guidelines
book by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams, and I must say I should have bought this book when it first came out. As far as guidance documentation goes, this book is extremely easy to read. The combination of a design pattern book style (listing the do’s don’ts and should considers after each pattern) with frequent interjections by some well known .Net folks (like Chris Sells, Jeffrey Richter, Eric Gunnerson, Paul Vick, Rico Mariani, and of course Anders Hejlsberg) is an excellent format for this type of topic.
If you are a senior .Net developer or architect, and are building enterprise ready applications, you should have this book and Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans by your side all the time. You definitely need to re-read this book prior to starting any new project, just to re-enforce these conventions, and refer back to the books when you have design questions.
If I ever write a book on XML, this is the exact format I’d use.
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