prism-knowledgebase/csharp-convention.md

C-Sharp Convention

• C# Framework version
• What's new

Naming Convention

• Microsoft
• MSDN

Object Name	Notation	Length	Plural	Prefix	Suffix	Abbreviation	Char Mask	Underscores
Namespace name	PascalCase	128	Yes	Yes	No	No	[A-z][0-9]	No
Class name	PascalCase	128	No	No	Yes	No	[A-z][0-9]	No
Constructor name	PascalCase	128	No	No	Yes	No	[A-z][0-9]	No
Method name	PascalCase	128	Yes	No	No	No	[A-z][0-9]	No
Method arguments	camelCase	128	Yes	No	No	Yes	[A-z][0-9]	No
Local variables	camelCase	50	Yes	No	No	Yes	[A-z][0-9]	No
Constants name	PascalCase	50	No	No	No	No	[A-z][0-9]	No
Field name	camelCase	50	Yes	No	No	Yes	[A-z][0-9]	Yes
Properties name	PascalCase	50	Yes	No	No	Yes	[A-z][0-9]	No
Delegate name	PascalCase	128	No	No	Yes	Yes	[A-z]	No
Enum type name	PascalCase	128	Yes	No	No	No	[A-z]	No

• Method Name to start with verb. Eg. UpdateProjection(), CalculateAngle()

NameSpace Naming Convention Microsoft

• <Company>.(<Product>|<Technology>)[.<Feature>][.<Subnamespace>]
  • eg: Mitech.Vision.Desktop, Mitech.Vision.Modules.Camera, MitechApp.Desktop, MitechLib.Modules.Recipes, etc
• PascalCamelCase convention
• Use Plural names where appropriate