Which coding convention do you use?

cyberjoe · January 6th, 2007, 04:49 PM

Hi to all!

I would like to ask you which coding convention do you use?

Regards,

planoie · January 9th, 2007, 10:46 AM

There are a lot of areas of coding convention. Which are you interested in?

Class, Method(, Argument), (Local/Global)Variable naming conventions?
Bracketing styles?

I use the following naming conventions:

Variables: 3 character camelCased pseudo-hungarian notation (globals prefixed with underscore)

Code:

   intPageCount, strUsername, bolSuccess, _aryObservers

Classes: PascalCased

Code:

   class User
   class FluxCapacitor

Interfaces: PascalCased with prefixed I

Code:

   IModelObserver, IController

Methods: PascalCased

Code:

   SaveUser(), CalculateFluxCapacitance()

Method arguments: non camelCased descriptive names

Code:

   SaveUser(User user), CalculateFluxCapacitance(DateTime destinationDate)

I personally use this bracketing convention for code layout:

Code:

   class FluxCapacitor{
      int CalculateFluxCapacitance(DateTime destinationDate){
         if(...){
            ....
         } else {
            ....
         }
      }
   }

However, my employer favors the brackets on separate lines:

Code:

   class FluxCapacitor
   {
      int CalculateFluxCapacitance(DateTime destinationDate)
      {
         if(...)
         {
            ....
         }
         else
         {
            ....
         }
      }
   }

-Peter

joefawcett · January 9th, 2007, 10:59 AM

We use the Microsoft ones at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...guidelines.asp.
Not perfect but at least it saved us from writing our own document and no-one could agree on stuff anyway. This way saved a lot of arguments.
The worse thing is Microsoft's own examples are often in contradiction to it...

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)