Coding Conventions

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Please visit C# Coding Conventions (C# Programming Guide)

Coding conventions serve the following purposes:

• They create a consistent look to the code, so that readers can focus on content, not layout.
• They enable readers to understand the code more quickly by making assumptions based on previous experience.
• They facilitate copying, changing, and maintaining the code.
• They demonstrate C# best practices.

The guidelines in this topic are used by Microsoft to develop samples and documentation.

Naming Conventions

• In short examples that do not include using directives, use namespace qualifications. If you know that a namespace is imported by default in a project, you do not have to fully qualify the names from that namespace. Qualified names can be broken after a dot (.) if they are too long for a single line, as shown in the following example:

    var currentPerformanceCounterCategory = new System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterCategory();

• You do not have to change the names of objects that were created by using the Visual Studio designer tools to make them fit other guidelines.