C# Field Naming Guidelines?

Question

I am going to be working on a bit of C# code on my own but I want to make sure that I follow the most widely accepted naming conventions in case I want to bring on other dev

Answer 1

In our shop, we started our first C# project using Microsoft's suggested guideline for private members, i.e.

camelCaseFieldName

But we soon ran into confusion between private members and parameters, and switched to

_camelCaseFieldName

which has worked much better for us.

A private member usually has a state that persists outside of a method call - the leading underscore tends to remind you of that.

Also note that using AutoVariable syntax for properties can minimize the need for private backing fields, i.e.

public int PascalCaseFieldName { get; set;}

For a nice concise set of standards that (mostly) follow the MS guidelines, check out net-naming-conventions-and-programming-standards---best-practices