Published 12/22/2008 by Clint Edmonson in Goodies
http://www.notsotrivial.net/blog/post/2008/12/Holiday-Goodie-Bag-Free-C-and-VB-Coding-Standards-Reference-Documents.aspx
Over the years, I've had the pleasure (and sometimes pain) of being involved in writing and maintaining the internal coding standards documents for nearly every company I've ever worked for. I still have vivid memories of many bloody internal disputes over some really silly things - where the curly braces should go - whether or not to use underscores in front of member variables. I firmly believe you need them to keep a consistent level of code quality and to this day I will still dig in and fight for this cause. The biggest lesson I've learned:
"It doesn't matter what the standards are, as long as you have them and everyone agrees to adhere to them!"
I present to you the latest incarnations of my efforts: a zip file containing C# and VB.NET editions of my reference coding standards. I've been holding these for the holidays so that I could share a little something extra with my readers as the year winds down. I certainly don't expect everyone to agree with my standards but I hope by posting these, you can get a head start towards documenting your own.
