See https://www.smuxi.org/page/HackingHowto

Coding Style
============

using System;
using System.IO;
using ThirdPartyNamespaces;
using MyOwnNamespaces;

namespace Smuxi.Frontend.Gnome
{
    public class GroupChatView : ChatView
    {
        // fields before auto properties
        int f_SomeField;
        string f_AnotherField;
        public int SomeAutoProperty { get; set; }

        // properties before ctors
        public int SomeManualProperty {
            get {
                return f_SomeField;
            }
            set {
                f_SomeField = value;
            }
        }

        // events before ctors
        public event EventHandler<EventArgs> StatusChanged;

        // ctors before methods
        public ChatView()
        {
        }

        public ChatView(int someParameter, string anotherParameter) :
                   base(someParameter, anotherParameter)
        {
            SomeAutoProperty = someParameter;
            f_AnotherField = anotherParameter;
        }

        public void SomePublicMethod()
        {
            // avoid nesting
            if (f_SomeField != 0) {
                return;
            }

            DoSomething();

            var res = MethodCallWithLotsOfParameterThatDontFitInASingleLine(
                f_SomeField,
                f_AnotherField,
                String.Format(
                    "Some String with {0}",
                    SomeAutoProperty
                )
            );

            switch (res) {
                case "Foo":
                    // code of Foo case
                    break;
                case "Bar":
                    // code of Bar case
                    break;
            }
        }

        // do not specify default access modifiers (private for methods)
        void DoSomething()
        {
            try {
                using (var hardStuff = GetSomethingHard()) {
                    // this is too hard, can't deal with it
                }
            } catch (InvalidOperationException) {
            }

            // do not use if (!something) with a else case, instead do:
            if (something) {
                // something is true case
            } else {
                // something is false case
            }

            // fluent style
            var msg = CreateMessageBuilder().
                AppendEventPrefix().
                AppendFormat("Test message").
                ToMessage();
            AddMessage(msg);
        }
    }
}
