title: "Common Sense" or Practical .NET Coding standards
body: <p>I'm about to undertake updating our coding standards documentation and I am thinking of perhaps writing them at a somewhat higher level than is commonly done.  We have a fair amount of developers that come and go, and they are generally of an intermediate skill level.  I want to eliminate the low quality "fluff" sections...for example, "variable naming conventions", etc...anything that is really of dubious value, that distracts from the portions of the document that are of genuine value (which may be skimmed or skipped entirely due to excessive low value content).</p>
  
  <p>I am also more interested in ensuring people don't do stupid things, rather than forcing them do do things in a certain way.</p>
  
  <p>We happen to be a .Net / Oracle shop, but for the type of material I am looking for, I don't think language is particularly important.</p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering if anyone has done this before and have some material they wouldn't mind sharing, or has come across any good online material of a similar nature?</p>