Project source code that follows Microsoft Best Practices

Question

Hi! I would like to know if you know some sites with great source code that follows Microsoft best practices?

By best practice I mean that projects that most likely conforms to say, this documents: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide http://apparch.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Pocket%20Guides&referringTitle=Home

Answer 1

I believe Microsoft's own code follows their best practices, so have a look at Shared Source Initiative.

Answer 2

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/practices/default.aspx and if you don't have VS 2008, download FxCop, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb429476(VS.80).aspx

Answer 3

I doubt that you will find "great source code" (ahem) which follows M$ best practices outside of M$ for these reasons:

1. Most of the products will be commercial (-> closed source)
2. To follow M$ development style, you need to be a big company with lots of developers. Most OSS projects are rather small (i.e. a small core team and lots of volunteers).

Answer 4

It will probably be very hard to find any open source code that complies to Microsoft's standards. You could, however check to see how closely a given project conforms using StyleCop and FXCop with the default rulesets.

One place I would look is the Mono Project, and programs built using it.

Also, mad-j's idea of looking at the shared source initiative, may help, but I would guess that not all of their code strictly follows their guidelines.