• Engineering guidelines
• Basics
• Copyright header and license notice
• External dependencies
• Code reviews and checkins
• Build numbers
• Branch strategy
• Solution and project folder structure and naming
• Conditional compilation for multiple Target Frameworks
• Assembly naming pattern
• Unit tests
• Coding guidelines
• Coding style guidelines – general
• Usage of the var keyword
• Use C# type keywords in favor of .NET type names
• Cross-platform coding
• Line breaks
• Environment Variables
• File path separators
• When to use internals vs. public and when to use InternalsVisibleTo
• Async method patterns
• Extension method patterns
• Doc comments
• Unit tests and functional tests
• Assembly naming
• Unit test class naming
• Unit test method naming
• Unit test structure
• Testing exception messages
• Use xUnit.net's plethora of built-in assertions
• Parallel tests
• Use only complete words or common/standard abbreviations in public APIs
• Common Patterns
• Logging patterns
• Testing PRs
• Product planning and issue tracking
• Issue tracking
• Breaking changes
• GitHub Flavored Markdown
• Including people in a GitHub discussion