Re: [Nant-users] RE: Coding Conventions & Code Complete by McConnell

2004-01-19 Thread Ian MacLean
try the X-refactory plugin http://www.xtreme-simplicity.net/ and the Jetbrains guys are also working on a vs plugin for c# which will include refactoing support. Ian I miss a lot an IDE that would enable refactoring for c# *AND* vb. Any suggestion would be really really appreciated, because I'm

RE: [Nant-users] Off-Topic: Coding Conventions & Code Complete by McConnell

2004-01-19 Thread Jarrod Moore
I'm a bit confused. I'm not advocating leaving out curly braces, but rather implementing code as: if (isTrue) { DoThis(); } else { DoThat(); } I haven't left anything out(accept comments), it's still neat and ordered, it's just not hugely drawn out with massive whitespace(not too

Re: [Nant-users] RE: Coding Conventions & Code Complete by McConnell

2004-01-19 Thread Jaroslaw Kowalski
Some articles at MSDN (watch for long URLs) [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconNETFrameworkDesignGuidelines.asp [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsent7/html/vxconcodingtechniques.asp Also, check some non-MS r

[Nant-users] RE: Coding Conventions & Code Complete by McConnell

2004-01-19 Thread Jean-Philippe Bret-Gaubaste
I will go further in the off-topics subjects related to coding conventions. I haven't found yet any document (I mean unique and consistent documents, not a collection of pages) giving a kind of standard convention for coding and naming, even on MS site, nor anywhere else. I may not have searched e

RE: [Nant-users] Off-Topic: Coding Conventions & Code Complete by McConnell

2004-01-19 Thread David Reed
[How strange that such simple words have launched holy wars... :] All things considered (with regards to curly placement), it's far more important that everybody in the shop do the same thing than it is specifically what you do. All of the research on bug-hunting and maintenance prove decisively

RE: [Nant-users] Off-Topic: Coding Conventions & Code Complete by McConnell

2004-01-19 Thread Cromwell, Ryan
Blah - I used to be of the "compactness" mindset as well. Then I remembered something my dad would always bombard me with when I was in math class as a kid. "Write everything out!" I used to think he was just old, but then I got my report card and no longer had any ammo against his request.

[Nant-users] Off-Topic: Coding Conventions & Code Complete by McConnell

2004-01-19 Thread Jarrod Moore
Sorry, this is a bit off topic, but I was curious about someting I saw on the coding conventions page(http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6080&group_id=3 1650). On that page it shows the curly braces being used on the same line as the if statement, as well as the else. I must say th