Let’s face it, most coding standards are arbitrary. The key to a successful project, however, is not which standards you follow, but that you are consistent.

Here is a partial list of the C# coding standards my team uses and advocates, updated by what we’ve learned in the past year.

Most of these are industry-wide conventions and thus using them will ensure that your code is easily readable by people who are not you. (Many thanks to Adam for letting me post this here)

👍 use PascalCasing for class names and method names.

public class ClientActivity 
{ 
    public void ClearStatistics() 
    { 
        //... 
    } 

    public void CalculateStatistics() 
    { 
        //... 
    } 
} 

Why: consistent with the Microsoft’s .NET Framework and easy to read.

👍 use camelCasing for method arguments and local variables.

public class UserLog 
{ 
   public void Add(LogEvent logEvent) 
   { 
    var itemCount = logEvent.Items.Count; 

    // ... 
   } 
} 

Why: consistent with the Microsoft’s .NET Framework and easy to read.