15. Coding Conventions
The topic of coding conventions (or coding standards) comes up a lot. You can always find it as a recent topic in the microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb newsgroup. A search on Google for “Coding Conventions” returns 170,000 hits. Why such interest? I think people simply want to know the way to format code.
With that said, there is no single way of authoring Microsoft Visual Basic code that is universally agreed upon. Microsoft defines a set of coding conventions that are adopted to a large or small degree by many development teams, but it’s very common for different sets of developers to follow, at least slightly, different rules.
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