CLSCompliantAttribute and the Naming Conventions

How embarrassing --- the CLSCompliantAttribute, which I was the PM for back in the day, does not follow the naming convention. A reader pointed this out nicely in my comments. All I can say is that this attribute has very heavy dependencies across *many* compilers and it was therefore deemed to hard to change once the Design Guidelines in this area were finalized.

Lesson Learned: Get the design right the first time! Listen up WinFX devs.. the little things do mater to our customers and ARE hard\impossible to change later.

BTW – this, any many other perils are in the annotations for the BCL book that hit a book store (or website) near you soon..

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 23, 2004
  Not really, you did a major naming cleanup from beta1 to beta2.
  
  Just change it and we have to change, flag it as subject to change and incorporate both and flag it as a warning depreciated. Thats normal on MSDN with things to be phased out, "This may be subject to change" and it usual does on later versions.
  
  
• Anonymous
  February 23, 2004
  Please tell us more about the BCL book ;-)
• Anonymous
  February 23, 2004
  I assume Brad means this book:
  
  .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library
  0321154894
  560 pp,
  MAR 12, 2004
  
  
  http://www.awprofessional.com/isapi/product_id~{D9324D1D-66A5-4B50-A86B-1934EED71FAA}/catalog/product.asp
• Anonymous
  February 23, 2004
  Hmmm.... "CLSComplaintAttribute", you reversed the "i" and the "a" to make a rather amusing typo (sorry, my first job out of school was as a copy editor). It's sort of appropriate. You're asking VS to complain if you break the CLS rules.
• Anonymous
  February 23, 2004
  Thanks Matt!
• Anonymous
  February 24, 2004
  CTRL-Shift-H, replace CLSCompliant with ClsCompliant, Match Case :)
• Anonymous
  February 26, 2004
  Thanks John, i fixed it...
  
  Yes, Matt, that is the book... I decided to hold off linking to it until people can actually order a copy... That should be in the next couple of weeks... I will be plugging it a lot then...