Coding Standards

If you have been developing code, I am sure you must have been engaged in discussions around following design and coding standards. These discussions usually go nowhere as everyone has their own opinion about different coding styles. If an agreement is reached, the first draft of the coding standard is usually extensive representing everyone's opinion and at the end hardly followed.
The simple approach that works is to get a good coding standard from the internet and customize it to your needs. There are several standards available like IDesign C#/.Net, WCF standards. I will also recommend the book Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams.