Update C# Coding Guidelines to v14

[Copilot]

Broad refresh of the guidelines to align with C# 14 and current .NET ecosystem practices. Covers version bumps, introduction rewrites, rule additions/updates/merges/removals, cheatsheet sync, and link maintenance.

Version & Site-wide

• Bump all C# version references from v10 → v14 (_config.yml, cover, cheatsheet, index)
• Remove Gitter badge; update social links to Bluesky/Mastodon

Introduction

• Replace ".NET Framework" → ".NET" throughout
• Mention open-source projects (Fluent Assertions, Liquid Projections) and .NET Starter Kit as companion
• Add Roslyn analyzers + Directory.Build.props tip
• Note both ReSharper and Rider have File Structure window
• How-to-get-started: PR template instead of Project Checklist
• §1.3 Basic principles now references the General Guidelines section instead of listing principles inline
• Add note about PolySharp for adopting newer C# language features in older .NET projects

New: General Guidelines (AV0100)

A new section covering fundamental software design principles, numbered AV0100 and up:

• AV0100 – Understand the boundaries of your codebase
• AV0105 – Use design patterns to communicate intent
• AV0110 – Prefer composition over class inheritance (code block example removed for brevity)
• AV0112 – Apply the Principle of Least Surprise (moved from Introduction §1.3)
• AV0115 – Keep It Simple Stupid / KISS (moved from Introduction §1.3)
• AV0120 – You Ain't Gonna Need It / YAGNI (moved from Introduction §1.3)
• AV0125 – Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) within boundaries (moved from Introduction §1.3)
• AV0130 – Apply the three pillars of object-oriented programming: Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance — Polymorphism removed (moved from Introduction §1.3)
• AV0135 – Treat AI-generated code as your own; closing line updated to "At least, not yet." (moved from Introduction §1.4)

New Rules Added

Class Design (AV1000 series)

• AV1002 – Only pass things to a constructor that most or all members need
• AV1028 – Don't create a record with a constructor that takes more than 4 parameters; use properties instead
• AV1030 – Know when to use a record and when to use a class
• AV1032 – Consider a delegate instead of an interface with a single method
• AV1035 – Use primary constructors when they improve readability (C# 12+)

Member Design (AV1100 series)

• AV1145 – Use extension members to add behavior without modifying the original type (C# 14)
• AV1150 – Avoid local functions; prefer private methods (code block example removed for brevity)
• AV1155 – Use the field keyword in auto-properties when additional logic is needed (C# 14)

Maintainability (AV1500 series)

• AV1578 – Align projects with deployment units, not architectural layers
• AV1580 – Consider duplicating simple logic across modules to reduce coupling
• AV1582 – Use raw string literals for multi-line or escape-heavy strings (C# 11+)
• AV1585 – Make properties required when they must be set during initialization (C# 11+)

Testability (AV1600 series) — new section

• AV1600 – Use short concise functional test names
• AV1602 – Postfix test classes with Specs instead of Tests; nested class example updated to Order_placement
• AV1605 – Test behavior, not implementation details
• AV1608 – Show what's important in a test, hide what's not (hide irrelevant setup behind Test Data Builders or Object Mothers; references AV1610)
• AV1610 – Use Test Data Builders or Object Mothers to construct test objects
• AV1615 – Prefer inline literals over constant variables in tests
• AV1618 – Don't use production code in test assertions
• AV1620 – Test reusable components separately from their consumers
• AV1622 – Test concrete implementations as part of a larger integration scope

Framework Guidelines (AV2200 series)

• AV2225 – Use deconstruction to simplify variable assignments — covers tuple/record deconstruction (var (x, y) = point;), list-pattern matching for arrays/collections, and foreach deconstruction

Documentation Guidelines (AV2300 series)

• AV2308 – Document what a member tries to do, not what it does or how it does it

Rules Updated

• AV1000 – Two new tips: naming difficulty signals too many responsibilities; use AI to detect SRP violations. Record types for primitives.
• AV1003 – Prefer role-based interface names (IFetchSomething) over IClassName
• AV1004 – Fix typo: a(n abstract) → an abstract
• AV1013 – Retitled "Don't cast a base class to one of its derived classes"; added polymorphism example
• AV1025 – Recommend record for DTOs
• AV1125 – Shortened to the key point; removed generic second paragraph
• AV1500 – Method statement limit raised from 7 → 15
• AV1521 – Remove C/VB historical context
• AV1523 – Removed "Instead of" counter-example block; now starts with positive example. Added array initializers and spread operator (C# 12+)
• AV1530 – Extended to cover foreach mutation
• AV1545 – Condensed; retains all ??, ??=, ?. examples
• AV1546 – Note .NET 8 DefaultInterpolatedStringHandler improvements
• AV1702 – Removed the "On" prefix event handler sentence (line 31); casing table retained
• AV1706 – Casing rules for abbreviations: ≤2 chars all-caps (IO), >2 chars title-case (Http)
• AV1708 – Fix unformatted type names (IComponent → `IComponent`)
• AV1735 – Absorb AV1737: -ing/-ed pre/post-event naming
• AV1755 – Only suffix Async when a synchronous counterpart exists
• AV1820 – Retitled to emphasize I/O-bound constraint
• AV2202 – Replace != null/HasValue with is null/is not null; add collection expression example ([]); add null-conditional assignment (??=) example for C# 14
• AV2230 – Shortened
• AV2305 – Added note that inheritdoc is not needed on overriding members
• AV2400 – Removed "Start the LINQ statement with all the from expressions and don't interweave them with restrictions"

Rules Removed

Rule	Reason
AV1220	Removed (null-conditional operator makes this trivial)
AV1510	Obsolete (implicit usings / file-scoped namespaces)
AV1525	Not seen in practice
AV1532	LINQ not always clearer; use right tool for the job
AV1551	Not seen in practice
AV1568	Not seen in practice
AV1737	Merged into AV1735
AV1738	Merged into AV1702
AV2201	Obsolete (C# type aliases)
AV2207	Too framework-specific / outdated config approach
AV2221	Obsolete (lambda expressions supersede anonymous methods since C# 3)
AV2235	async/await is the default now
AV2307	Removed (MSDN-style XML documentation guidance)

Severity Changes

• AV1115 → level 3 (situational / hard to enforce)
• AV1026 remains level 1 (reverted from proposed downgrade)

Link Maintenance

Fixed all broken and outdated links across the documentation:

• Replaced dead lostechies.com links with Wikipedia equivalents (Rule of Three, ISP, SOLID)
• Replaced dead 8thlight.com SRP article with Wikipedia SRP
• Replaced dead domaindrivendesign.org with Wikipedia DDD
• Replaced sites.google.com/site/unclebobconsultingllc/ with cleancoder.com
• Removed dead tiobe.com C# 1.0 paper link (2002)
• Removed dead blogs.msdn.microsoft.com LINQ Guidelines post from Resources page
• Updated msdn.microsoft.com/magazine async article to learn.microsoft.com archive
• Updated all docs.microsoft.com links to learn.microsoft.com
• Updated version-specific JetBrains ReSharper link (2021.3) to version-neutral URL
• Fixed http:// → https:// for JetBrains and continuousimprover.com links
• Fixed missing https:// protocol on www.continuousimprover.com Cheatsheet footer links

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Updates for the new version</issue_title>
<issue_description>Make the following changes on the develop branch

General
Update version numbers to C# 14
Update cheat sheet
Introduction
Add something about the use of AI. E.g. using is fine, as long as you treat all that code as your own
Replace ".NET Framework" with just .NET
Mention my .NET Starter Kit as a good companion
Mention that this guideline is also used by all my open-source projects
Explain to apply DRY within boundaries, but duplicate code across boundaries when it's simple
Add the most critical coding guidelines on your PR template
Check all links to see if they point to valid files
Rider has a file structure window as well
Mention all my open-source projects and how they influenced the guidelines
Remove Gitter reference
Update social media links
Mention the many Roslyn analyzers and how directory.props can be used
General Guidelines
New: Understand the boundaries of your code base
New: Use design patterns to refactor code into a structure people can recognize by name
New: Prefer compoisiton over inheritance
Class Design Guidelines: Rename to "Type Design Guidelines" or "Class/Record Design Guidelines"
AV1000
Tip: If you can't find a good name for a class, or struggle to document, it's doing to much.
Tip: If you explain what the class does to an AI, it may help detect multiple responsibilities
For primitive types, consider an immutable record type
AV1001?: Only pass things to a constructor that most or all members need
AV1003: Avoid taking the name of the class and slapping an I in front of it
Consider using role-based names like IFetchSomething or IProvideClusterwideLock
AV1004: Typo in "a(n abstract)"
AV1005: Understand the boundaries of your code base. Use interfaces across boundaries, but avoid them within the boundary
AV1013: Rephrase as "Don't cast a base class to one of its derived classes". Also add an example.
AV1025: For DTOs, a record is probably a better example
AV1026: Consider removing
New: Don't create a record with a constructor that takes more than 4 parameters. Use properties instead
New: When to use a record, and when to use a class
New: Consider a delegate instead of an interface with a single method
New: Use Primary constructors
Member Design Guidelines
AV1115: Consider removing as it is difficult to explain or validate
AV1125: Rewrite and start with the example of HttpContext.Current
AV1130: Revisit, as IEnumerable is often perceived as lazy-evaluated. And why not just return an array?
AV1137: Rewrite as "Keep parameters as specific and narrow as possible"
AV1140: Rewrite as "Consider created domain-specific types rather than primitives"
New: Use extension blocks
New: Avoid local functions
New: Use the field keyword
Miscellaneous Design Guidelines
AV1220: Remove as nobody uses events anymore
AV1250: Rename to "Materialize the result of a Iqueryable or Ienumerable expression before returning it"
Maintainability Guidelines
AV1500: Increase to 15
New: Align projects with the depllyment units, not layers
Remove: AV1510
AV1521: Remove the reference to Visual Basic and C
AV1523
Extend with array initializers, including spread operator
Remove the old example
AV1525: Remove as it is not something I see a lot
AV1530: Extend with foreach as well
AV1532: Remove, as LINQ statements are not always clearer. Use the right tool at the right time
AV1545
Take into considering the ? operator (conditional assignment and conditional expressions)
Also see if we can keep that section shorter
AV1546: Do some investigation on what string mechanism is the fastest in .NET 8 and later
AV1551: Consider removing it as it is not something I see a lot
AV1553: Check if this still makes sense and rewrite it to be shorter
AV1554: Still applicable?
AV1568: Remove. It's valid, but I don't see this a lot.
AV1580: Remove, as all debuggers support showing the individual sections
New: Considering duplicating code across different modules to reduce coupling
New: Use raw string literals
New: Make properties required
Testability Guidelines (1600)
Use short concise functional names
Show what's important, hide what's not
Avoid private helper methods to build various test objects
Use test Data Builders to build flexi
Exception: Sometimes a simple object mother is sufficent
Test behavior, not implementation details
Prefer inline literals over constant variables
Don't use production code in assertions
Use short fact-based test names
Postfix test classes with Specs instead of Tests
Test things designed to be reusable separately
Test implementations as part of a bigger scope
Naming Guidelines
AV1701: Remove the reference to other programming languages
AV1706: Mention the naming for abbreviations longer than 2 characters
AV1708: Not all code elements are rendered in code style
AV1737: Merge int...

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[dennisdoomen]

@copilot can you also check if all links in the Markdown files are still working?

[Copilot]

@copilot can you also check if all links in the Markdown files are still working?

Done in commit 3c54c2c. Here's a summary of the broken/outdated links that were fixed:

Dead sites replaced with working alternatives:

• lostechies.com links (site is down) → Wikipedia equivalents for Rule of Three, ISP, and SOLID
• 8thlight.com SRP article → Wikipedia SRP
• domaindrivendesign.org → Wikipedia DDD
• sites.google.com/site/unclebobconsultingllc/ → cleancoder.com
• tiobe.com C# 1.0 paper (2002) → link removed (plain text reference retained)
• blogs.msdn.microsoft.com LINQ Guidelines post → removed from Resources page
• msdn.microsoft.com/magazine async best practices → updated to learn.microsoft.com archive

Updated to current URLs:

• All docs.microsoft.com links → learn.microsoft.com
• msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384062.aspx (object initializers) → learn.microsoft.com
• msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx (MVVM) → learn.microsoft.com archive
• jetbrains.com/help/resharper/2021.3/ (version-specific) → version-neutral URL
• http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ → https://
• www.continuousimprover.com links in Cheatsheet footers (missing https://) → fixed

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[dennisdoomen]

@copilot Introduce a new "General guidelines" section numbered AV0100 and up and add the following guidelines with a rationale

• Understand the boundaries of your code base
• Use design patterns to refactor code into a structure people can recognize by name
• Prefer compoisiton over inheritance

[dennisdoomen]

@copilot Introduce a new "General guidelines" section numbered AV0100 and up and add the following guidelines with a rationale

• Understand the boundaries of your code base
• Use design patterns to refactor code into a structure people can recognize by name
• Prefer compoisiton over inheritance

@copilot address this

[Copilot]

@copilot Introduce a new "General guidelines" section numbered AV0100 and up and add the following guidelines with a rationale

• Understand the boundaries of your code base
  ...

Done in commit 26f71d9. Added a new General Guidelines section with three rules:

• AV0100 – Understand the boundaries of your codebase — explains what a boundary is, why it matters for coupling decisions, and when to use contracts vs. duplicate logic
• AV0105 – Use design patterns to communicate intent — explains how named patterns give shared vocabulary, with tips on not over-engineering
• AV0110 – Prefer composition over class inheritance — explains when composition is better than inheritance with a code example, and notes when inheritance is still appropriate (Liskov Substitution)

Also:

• Created _pages/0100_GeneralGuidelines.md using the existing rule-category layout so rules render automatically
• Added "General (AV0100)" as the first entry under Guidelines in the sidebar navigation
• Added the three rules to the Cheatsheet

[dennisdoomen]

@copilot address the comments

Add new rules to the AV1000 series for:

• Don't create a record with a constructor that takes more than 4 parameters. Use properties instead
• When to use a record, and when to use a class
• Consider a delegate instead of an interface with a single method
• Use Primary constructors

In the AV1100 series, create new rules for:

• Use extension blocks
• Avoid local functions
• Use the field keyword

Under the AV1500 series, create new rules for:

• Align projects with the depllyment units, not layers
• Considering duplicating code across different modules to reduce coupling
• Use raw string literals
• Make properties required when applicable

[dennisdoomen]

Move this to the new general guidelines section

[Copilot]

Moved to the General Guidelines section as rule AV0112 (Apply the Principle of Least Surprise) in commit d20b723.

[dennisdoomen]

Move this to the new general guidelines section

[Copilot]

Moved to the General Guidelines section as rule AV0115 (Keep It Simple Stupid) in commit d20b723.

[dennisdoomen]

Move this to the new general guidelines section

[Copilot]

Moved to the General Guidelines section as rule AV0120 (You Ain't Gonna Need It) in commit d20b723.

[dennisdoomen]

Move this to the new general guidelines section

[Copilot]

Moved to the General Guidelines section as rule AV0125 (Don't Repeat Yourself) in commit d20b723.

[dennisdoomen]

Move this to the new general guidelines section

[Copilot]

Moved to the General Guidelines section as rule AV0130 (Apply the four pillars of object-oriented programming) in commit d20b723.

[dennisdoomen]

Move this to the new general guidelines section

[Copilot]

Moved to the General Guidelines section as rule AV0135 (Treat AI-generated code as your own) in commit d20b723.

[dennisdoomen]

Remove this paragrapj

[Copilot]

Removed in commit d20b723.

[dennisdoomen]

Please remove the entire rule

[Copilot]

Entire rule deleted in commit d20b723.

[dennisdoomen]

Remove this block

[Copilot]

Removed in commit d20b723. The rule now starts directly with the positive example.

[dennisdoomen]

@copilot address the code review comments

[dennisdoomen]

@copilot Add a new section called "Testability Guidelines" in the AV1600 series with the following guidelines

• Use short concise functional names
• Show what's important, hide what's not
• Avoid private helper methods to build various test objects
  • Use test Data Builders to build flexi
  • Exception: Sometimes a simple object mother is sufficent
• Test behavior, not implementation details
• Prefer inline literals over constant variables
• Don't use production code in assertions
• Use short fact-based test names
• Postfix test classes with Specs instead of Tests
• Test things designed to be reusable separately
• Test implementations as part of a bigger scope

[Copilot]

@copilot address the comments

Add new rules to the AV1000 series for:
...

Done in commit d20b723. New rules added:

Class Design (AV1000 series):

• AV1028 – Don't create a record with a constructor that takes more than 4 parameters; use properties instead
• AV1030 – Know when to use a record vs a class (data/value semantics → record; mutable state/behavior/identity → class)
• AV1032 – Consider a delegate instead of a single-method interface
• AV1035 – Use primary constructors when they improve readability (C# 12+)

Member Design (AV1100 series):

• AV1145 – Use extension members to add behavior without modifying the original type (C# 14)
• AV1150 – Avoid local functions; prefer private methods
• AV1155 – Use the field keyword in auto-properties when additional logic is needed (C# 14)

Maintainability (AV1500 series):

• AV1578 – Align projects with deployment units, not architectural layers
• AV1580 – Consider duplicating simple logic across modules to reduce coupling
• AV1582 – Use raw string literals for multi-line or escape-heavy strings (C# 11+)
• AV1585 – Make properties required when they must be set during initialization (C# 11+)

All new rules are also reflected in the Cheatsheet.

@copilot address the code review comments

All code review comments addressed in commit d20b723:

• §1.3 Basic principles (lines 23–27 + line 42): Moved POLS, KISS, YAGNI, DRY, OOP four pillars, and AI usage to dedicated General Guidelines rules (AV0112–AV0135). The Introduction now references the General Guidelines section instead of listing the principles.
• AV1125 line 9: Removed the second "In general, a stateful object…" paragraph.
• AV1220: Entire rule file deleted.
• AV1523 lines 7–19: Removed the "Instead of:" counter-example block; the rule now starts directly with the positive "Use Object and Collection Initializers" guidance.

[dennisdoomen]

Superseded by the following replacement PRs:

Guideline PRs

• Add AV0100: Understand the boundaries of your codebase
• Add AV0105: Use design patterns to communicate intent
• Add AV0110: Prefer composition over class inheritance
• Add AV0112: Apply the Principle of Least Surprise
• Add AV0115: Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)
• Add AV0120: You Ain't Gonna Need It (YAGNI)
• Add AV0125: Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) within boundaries
• Add AV0130: Apply the three pillars of object-oriented programming
• Add AV0135: Treat AI-generated code as your own
• Add AV1002: Only pass things to a constructor that most or all members need
• Add AV1028: Don't create a record with a constructor that takes more than 4 parameters
• Add AV1030: Know when to use a record and when to use a class
• Add AV1032: Consider a delegate instead of an interface with a single method
• Add AV1035: Use primary constructors when they improve readability
• Add AV1145: Use extension members to add behavior without modifying the original type
• Add AV1150: Avoid local functions
• Add AV1155: Use the field keyword in auto-properties when additional logic is needed
• Add AV1578: Align projects with deployment units, not architectural layers
• Add AV1582: Use raw string literals for multi-line or escape-heavy strings
• Add AV1585: Make properties required when they must be set during initialization
• Add AV1600: Use short concise functional test names
• Add AV1602: Postfix test classes with Specs instead of Tests
• Add AV1605: Test behavior, not implementation details
• Add AV1608: Show what's important in a test, hide what's not
• Add AV1610: Use Test Data Builders or Object Mothers to construct test objects
• Add AV1615: Prefer inline literals over constant variables in tests
• Add AV1618: Don't use production code in test assertions
• Add AV1620: Test reusable components separately from their consumers
• Add AV1622: Test concrete implementations as part of a larger integration scope
• Add AV2225: Use deconstruction to simplify variable assignments
• Add AV2308: Document what a member tries to do, not what it does or how it does it
• Remove AV1220: Always check an event handler delegate for null
• Remove AV1510: Use using statements instead of fully qualified type names
• Remove AV1525: Don't make explicit comparisons to true or false
• Remove AV1532: Avoid nested loops
• Remove AV1551: Call the more overloaded method from other overloads
• Remove AV1568: Don't use parameters as temporary variables
• Remove AV1737: Use -ing and -ed to express pre-events and post-events
• Remove AV1738: Prefix an event handler with "On
• Remove AV2201: Use C# type aliases instead of the types from the System namespace
• Remove AV2207: Don't hard-code strings that change based on the deployment
• Remove AV2221: Use lambda expressions instead of anonymous methods
• Remove AV2235: Favor async/await over Task continuations
• Remove AV2307: Write MSDN-style documentation
• Update AV1000: A class or interface should have a single purpose
• Update AV1003: An interface should be small and focused
• Update AV1004: Use an interface rather than a base class to support multiple implementations
• Update AV1010: Don't suppress compiler warnings using the new keyword
• Update AV1011: It should be possible to treat a derived type as if it were a base type
• Update AV1013: Don't cast a base class to one of its derived classes
• Update AV1020: Avoid bidirectional dependencies
• Update AV1025: Classes should have state and behavior
• Update AV1115: A property, method or local function should do only one thing
• Update AV1125: Don't expose stateful objects through static members
• Update AV1130: Return interfaces to unchangeable collections
• Update AV1137: Keep parameters as specific and narrow as possible
• Update AV1140: Consider creating domain-specific types rather than using primitives
• Update AV1230: Consider providing property-changed events
• Update AV1250: Materialize the result of a LINQ expression before returning it
• Update AV1500: Methods should not exceed 15 statements
• Update AV1520: Only use var when the type is evident
• Update AV1521: Declare and initialize variables as late as possible
• Update AV1523: Favor object and collection initializers over separate statements
• Update AV1530: Don't change a loop variable inside a for or foreach loop
• Update AV1545: Don't use an if-else construct instead of a simple (conditional) assignment
• Update AV1546: Prefer interpolated strings over concatenation or string.Format.
• Update AV1553: Only use optional parameters to replace overloads
• Update AV1554: Do not use optional parameters in interface methods or their concrete implementations
• Update AV1562: Don't use ref or out parameters
• Update AV1580: Consider duplicating simple logic across modules to reduce coupling
• Update AV1701: Use US English
• Update AV1706: Don't use abbreviations
• Update AV1708: Name types using nouns, noun phrases or adjective phrases
• Update AV1735: Use a verb or verb phrase to name an event
• Update AV1755: Only use Async or TaskAsync as a suffix when a method has both synchronous and asynchronous versions
• Update AV1800: Consider using Any() to determine whether an IEnumerable<T> is empty
• Update AV1820: Only use async for I/O-bound or long-running activities
• Update AV1825: Prefer Task.Run for CPU-intensive activities
• Update AV1835: Beware of async/await deadlocks in UI frameworks (e.g. WPF, WinForms)
• Update AV2202: Prefer language syntax over explicit calls to underlying implementations
• Update AV2230: Only use the dynamic keyword when talking to a dynamic object
• Update AV2305: Document all public, protected and internal types and members
• Update AV2400: Use a common layout

Page PRs

• Add page: General Guidelines
• Add page: Testability Guidelines
• Update page: C he at sh ee t
• Update page: C ov er An dS ty le s
• Update page: Links & Articles

Minor changes PR

• Split minor site updates from #298

[dennisdoomen]

Superseded by smaller replacement PRs.