Please ignore the framework design guidelines - it's not representive of what the entire .NET Framework uses, and Krzysztof and Brad told me that it was their biggest regret in the book.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:27 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: What's up with braces? So Resharper prefers vertical aligned braces (which I have traditionally used). Now we have a schism because most of the sample code I see lately and the Framework design guidelines use indented braces. Which authority do we believe or follow? I was thinking that I must prefer vertical braces because I like visual symmetry and less clutter. Although the right align braces only add a tiny amount of extra clutter on a line they do disturb the symmetry. public void FooBar() { Something(); } Some reputable books I have use vertical braces for namespace and class definitions, but indented ones for functions and properties. Go figure?! Maybe F# has the answer where the actual indentation is more important and there is little need for block delimiters. Greg
