I’m on a project where the coding quality has been in question and there has been a lot of scrutiny on the coding style and format of our code.  Our customer has a set of general set of coding standards that they require all suppliers to follow.  We as a .Net team also have our own set of standards.  Probably every where you go you’ll find similar coding standards documents.  Some people have even adopted personal coding standards. Do you have any?  Do you hold your code to a set of standards? Are they documented?

How many of us really know our coding standards?  How many of us follow them or work to improve them?  Are your standards documents just some bytes taking up disk space on your network or SharePoint site?  Frankly, this exercise with our customer has made me ask myself, how much do I really follow the standards? 

Today I’m beginning a challenge for myself.  A challenge to re-read our coding standards, research other industry coding standards and to understand the reasons behind them and to determine which of them make sense and which don’t and to understand why.  I will try to include some of my knowledge here on my site, for my reference and possibly yours, my friend.  Let’s do this together, if anyone’s out there.  Let’s understand why we have standards and fix the ones that are just wrong.

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