C# Coding Guidelines

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What are some of the most popular, sensible and detailed C# coding guidelines you recommend?

Related StackOverflow question: C# Coding Standard -- Sadly, this question is old and the answers point to outdated or tiny coding standard documents. With the current base of C# adoption, surely there are better C# coding guideline documents out there!

Answer 1

You can pick one of the seven coding standards documents listed on this blog post.

These are:

• IDesign C# coding standards
• Encodo C# Handbook
• Microsoft Framework Design Guidelines
• Denni’s C# Coding Standards document
• Microsoft’s All-In-One Code Framework Coding Guideline
• Brad’s Quick Post on Microsoft Internal Coding Guidelines
• Mike’s C# Coding Style Guide

Answer 2

This is the official document

Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers

It contains all sorts of guidelines such as Design, Naming , Useage etc.

If you're specifically interested in naming guidelines, the subset of the document contains it here

Naming Guidelines

Answer 3

SubMain have a freely downloadable 100+ page PDF document on C# and VB.NET coding standards. Whilst they were aimed at C#2 upon release, a lot of the guidelines are still good for C#3 and 4.