- Classes, enums, namespaces, and methods shall be named in
PascalCase. - Variables, fields, and properties shall be named in
camelCase. - Objects declared with either const or readonly shall be named with
UNDERSCORE_DELIMITED_ALLCAPS. - Names shall be descriptive of their purpose.
- Closely-related information should have names of the same length.
- There shall be no space between a method's name and its arguments.
- There shall be a space between a control structure (e.g. if, for) and its arguments.
- Class, method, property, control structure, et cetera bodies shall always be contained by curly brackets, even if they contain only one statement.
- Bracketed blocks shall begin the line after the control structure or declaration, e.g.,
class Foo
{
//…
}- Indentation shall be one tab per rank.
- Lines shall have a length not exceeding 80 characters.
- Excessively long single lines shall be cut at logical points.
- Access modifiers shall only be added if they overide the implicit access modifiers
- The order of members within a class shall be: static fields, instanced fields, static properties, instanced properties, constructors, methods.
- There shall be an empty line between: the last field and the first property; the last property and the first constructor; each pair of constructors; the last constructor and the first method; each pair of methods.
- There shall be one class, enum, or struct in each file.
- Instanced fields and properties shall be initialized in constructors, not in declaration.
- Single-line comments shall be on their own line, not appended to any other code.
- Single-line comments shall use the double-slash notation
//, as opposed to the block-comment notation,/* … */. - There shall be a comment immediately preceding every method.
- Comments within the body of a method shall precede the content in question and be preceded by an empty line themselves.