C# check or force naming conventions

Question

I have inherited a few programs from a previous developer who was a little sloppy with naming variables, methods and classes with different capitalization and sometimes underscores.

Is there a program or a way in visual studio to validate the naming of each variable, method, property, constant, class.... I would be fine with the standard C# conventions.

Answer 1

You could look at Microsoft StyleCop and FXCop

Answer 2

I use ReSharper 4.5 for that, which has this advantage, that it allows you to see non-comforming code as you write it.

You also can use NDepend and CQL to check your conventions in a very granular and flexible way. It's great as part of your build script.

Both tools cost money, both are worth it.