Style Cop

[Nish Nishant]

Not so much formatting as code styles and guidelines, like variable naming, comments, order of fields, methods etc.

Regards, Nish

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[wizardzz]

It was recommended to me in a previous post regarding a coworker's use of under_score instead of underScore in the middle of variables. Someone recommended that I try StyleCop to settle our convention disputes.

[Nish Nishant]

No, FxCop and StyleCop are different. StyleCop analyzes your source code, whereas FxCop does static analysis on your compiled assembly. Normally you are supposed to use them together, so they complement each other.

Regards, Nish

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[Rob Philpott]

You really don't need a tool to police that. The accepted convention is camel case for variables, so under_score is simply wrong. Suggest (s)he reads a book or something.

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[Rob Philpott]

Oh, ok. In which case, I hate *both* of them.

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[Nish Nishant]

:laugh:

Regards, Nish

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[moon_stick]

How about the MS Naming Guidelines[^]??

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[MrSpackle]

I sometimes feel alone in this opinion, but I believe that source code readability is a very, very, close second place to code correctness. Anyone else?

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[Ravi Sant]

i hate the need for styling in first place.

[Slacker007]

Rob Philpott wrote:

The accepted convention is camel case for variables, so under_score is simply wrong.

That is your opinion. Microsoft begs to differ with their internal coding practices. I thought we killed this bird a few days ago.

[Chris Losinger]

me too. which is why i think LINQ is crap.

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[Rob Philpott]

Mine and everyone else I know - yes.

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[wizardzz]

I'll admit that I'm not a fan of all styling conventions, and I think when working on the same project as others, it's nice to just stay consistent. But the underscore in variable names is killing me, I didn't think it would bug me so much.

[Slacker007]

Thanks for the correction. :)

[Electron Shepherd]

Since you like it, what's the rationale for starting just the first word with a lower case letter? Why is customerAccountNumber better than CustomerAccountNumber or strCustomerAccountNumber or lpszCustomerAccountNumber ?

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[Nish Nishant]

No problem :)

Regards, Nish

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[Rob Philpott]

Who knows? The point is convention. You can tell at a glance what you're dealing with (local/member/property etc). And if we all do things the same way it makes it easier to understand each other's code. A good thing surely.

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[realJSOP]

Hmmm, I always thought StyleCop was intended for the garbage can...

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[Electron Shepherd]

Rob Philpott wrote:

Who knows? The point is convention.

And that's my point. All you're saying is that being consistent is good, and being able to identify scope from name is good. But that's not a justification for using camel case. I've never seen a good reason why it's "better" than other naming standards, and I think it's worse. My deliberately chosen example is something that is conventionally called a number, but in the real world is very ofen a mixture of letters and numbers, and so has to be represented as a string. Using the camel case standard, you somethings can't infer data type from the name, which to me seems a backward step.

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