Measuring API Usability
By Steven Clarke, May 01, 2004
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Steven examines some techniques that Microsoft uses to design and evaluate the usability of the APIs that ship with .NET.
May04: Measuring API Usability
class FileIO
{
public FileIO(string path){...}
protected ~FileIO(){...}
public void Close() {...}
public void WriteLine(string text) {...}
public string ReadLine(){...}
public void DeleteFile(){...}
public FileIO CopyFile(string newPath) {...}
}
Example 1: API for simple file I/O.