The Elements of C# Style

by Kenneth Baldwin, Andrew Gray, Trevor Misfeldt

The Elements of C# Style is for all C# practitioners, especially those working in teams where consistency is critical. Like previous Elements titles, the text furnishes a set of rules for writing clear, comprehensible and easy-to maintain code; this time for C#. The authors offer a collection of standards and guidelines for creating solid C# that can save time, effort and expense. The book provides conventions
- formatting
- naming
- documentation
- programming
- packaging
for C# 2.0 and includes discussion of advanced topics such as generics.

Genres: Programming

156 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2006

Reviews

[Yaser Sulaiman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Elements of C# Style is a short, handy, and easy to understand style guide for the C# programming language.

This book follows the pattern used in most style guides: a list of 174 rules, each containing a short explanation plus some examples of correct, and occasionally incorrect, use. The rules offer standards and guidelines that cover formatting, naming, documentation, programming, and packaging.

You are not expected to agree with all of the rules, but the specifics of a style doesn't really matter; what matters most is that you follow some "good" coding style consistently, and the advice offered by this book is pretty much in line with what is found in other "good" programming style guides.

In a nutshell, if you want to write C# code in a consistent style, this book is worth having nearby, especially if you write code as part of a team.