Microsoft Coding Standard Document

Question

Is there a Coding Standard document available for download from Microsoft ? I want to use their standards, mainly for C#.

Answer 1

The patterns & practices Guidance Explorer

"is a tool that enables discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance. Guidance Explorer installs with a connection to the patterns & practices guidance library including performance and security topics for .NET, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET applications. The guidance library contains a variety of guidance types including checklists and guidelines covering design, implementation and deployment topics."

So, this will be a bit friendlier than one big document and will let you:

• Find relevant patterns & practices guidance
• Build customized checklists for your development scenarios
• Build customized guidelines for your development scenarios
• You can build custom sets of guidance and share with your team as recommended practice.
• Subscribe to an RSS feed of guidance

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