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<B><I><FONT FACE="Arial"><P>Coding Style Guidelines</P></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2><P> </P><OL>
</I><LI>Don�t use tabs</LI></B><P>Use a 4-space indent instead. Before you start writing code, make sure you enable your editor�s "map tabs to spaces" feature. In MSDEV, you can find this option by clicking "tools"=>"options"=>"tabs."</P>
<B><LI>Don�t use standard C runtime library functions</LI></B><P>We�ve got internal API�s for everything. So if you�re about to type "strcmp" ask your mentor or someone else what to use instead. </P>
<B><LI>Use Hungarian prefix notation when naming variables</LI></B><P>Any Windows programming book (e.g. Petzold�s <U>Programming Windows 95</U>) should have a discussion of this naming convention. Or you can just look around in the IE code base for examples.</P>
<B><LI>Miscellaneous</LI>
</B><P>Put a space between "if" and "(". Put a space between "switch" and "(". Don�t put a space between "foo" and "(".</P></FONT></BODY></OL></HTML>
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