Update on my Coding Standard for .NET
My second week at PRG-Schultz is now just about over. I finished my coding standard for all new .NET development and we went over it today. It went pretty well for the most part, although that's probably equally attributable to my manager as to my work. As for my part, since I just summarized and referred to the MSDN docs and other similar standards, its hard to argue with the rest of the .NET world. I think the existence of FxCop for easy self-checking also won a few people over, since it doesn't mean lots of policing. The consultants on the team were probably the most receptive of all, even though one wasn't involved with .NET and the other is still rather new to it. They are just more used to change and some type of client standard or other expectation. On the other hand, I have a most excellent manager (are you reading this Frank?) that actually did a little research and calls to others to prove to himself that this really is the industry standard in .NET. As a result, he prepped the team so that it was understood it was a done deal and not open to much change, although gripes were more than welcome this one time. One person that had told me he would not change seemed content with accepting it, and one other is what I suspect is the one that every shop has. But it went real well overall, and so far they appear to be a very solid team, evidenced even more by a team-building session we had yesterday. Some of them are going to be very new to .NET, as this is a very diverse team, but I think we'll make it.