Question

What best practices and methods would you enforce on a new .NET development team?

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Answer 1

Good question. I’ve had to deal with this very recently with my team. Here’s a couple quick points:

• Come up with coding and documentation standards. A search for C# style guidelines will yield some good results. StyleCop and FxCop might be useful for enforcing your standards.
• Source control. SVN is popular, but I prefer Mercurial.
• Depending upon what type of projects you are working on, you might want to decide on a standard architecture. Typically, we use a UI – Application – Business Logic – Infrastructure architecture.
• Put your database in version control.