Standards Master 2004 provides powerful, flexible coding standards enforcement for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Enforce naming conventions and automate your code reviews! Quick Links Evaluate Download FAQs Purchase  Now with Extended C# Support! Try it free today! What is Standards Master 2004? Key Features System Requirements Why Does My Company Need Coding Standards? Why Automate Coding Standards Enforcement? Who Will Benefit from Using Standards Master 2004?

	Enforce Naming conventions for variables, constants, classes, functions, events, delegates, filenames and just about everything else.
	Configure naming conventions any way you like. Support for Hungarian Notation, Camel-case, and Pascal-case.
	New AutoCorrect features corrects naming convention violations as you type. (VB .NET only)
	Improved suggestion logic provides detailed suggestions for correcting standards violations.
	Enforce maximum and minimum identifier lengths.
	Check for forbidden identifiers.

	Automatically insert header comments into your files, classes, modules, procedures, and properties with configurable templates.
	Insert revision history and inline comments from templates.
	Create and insert boilerplate blocks of code at the touch of a button.
	Check your code for missing comments and insert them en masse as needed (VB.NET and C#)
	Full support for C-Sharp XML-style comments

	Create Regions simply and easily.
	Format and outline your code using configurable block structure definitions.

	Flexible configuration - you choose the errors to report.
	Prohibit use of GoTos.
	Require Try/Catch Blocks.
	Refactor public members to private members with accessor properties.
	Keep your code lean by enforcing numerous thresholds, including Lines per Class, Classes per File, Functions per Class, and many more.
	Require a single exit point per function.
	Automatically remove explicit "Me" references.
	Enforce Option Strict, Option Compare, and Option Explicit Settings.
	Require or prohibit shorthand operator syntax (i.e., X = X + 1 or X += 1)
	Fix all errors of the same type at once.

	Share your standards definition files with any number of developers.
	Enforce different standards for different projects in the same solution.
	Check one file, a group of files, or a whole solution at once.

	Support for Visual Basic .NET, C# and J#.
	Robust Standards Editor.
	Seamless IDE integration.
	Docking toolwindow lets you manage and fix standards violations while editing your code.

Minimum Requirements
Software	Requires any edition of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.
Processor	450-megahertz (MHz) Pentium II-class processor, 600-MHz Pentium III-class processor recommended
Operating System	Standards Master 2004 can be installed onto any of the following systems: Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 Windows XP Professional Windows XP Home Edition Windows 2000 Professional (SP3 or later required for installation) Windows 2000 Server (SP3 or later required for installation)
Memory	Windows Server 2003: 160 megabytes (MB) of RAM Windows XP Professional: 160 MB of RAM Windows XP Home Edition: 96 MB of RAM Windows 2000 Professional: 96 MB of RAM Windows 2000 Server: 192 MB of RAM
Hard Disk	1 MB of available space required on system drive, 5 MB of available space required on installation drive
Drive	CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Display	Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher-resolution display with 256 colors recommended
Mouse	Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Coding standards provide a baseline for your company’s developers to create consistent code that is easier to read and modify. Code that follows formal coding standards has fewer bugs, is cheaper to maintain, and can be written more quickly. Without coding standards, quality and readability are hit-or-miss at best.

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Many companies find it difficult to establish a culture in which coding standards play a central role. The problem is not creating them, it’s enforcing them. Formal code reviews, while effective, are very time-consuming. Faced with we-needed-it-yesterday deadlines and chaotic conditions, developers rarely find time for code reviews. Standards Master automatically checks code while the developers work, taking the headache out of the equation. With Standards Master, developers can program up-to-standard, ultimately allowing you to have reviews less frequently.

Standards Master 2004 is also effective at removing the "person" from the review. When you use Standards Master, reviews are fair, accurate, and impartial. You can be certain the code is being reviewed and not the coder.

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Team Programmers will appreciate Standards Master 2004 because it stays out of the way, but is there when they need it. They can work at their own pace and then check standards when they have finished the coding session. They will also benefit from Standards Master 2004’s AutoCorrect function, which corrects misnamed identifiers as they type.

Managers and Team Leads will find that code checked by Standards Master is more maintainable and therefore more cost efficient. Consistent application of coding standards not only makes training and familiarizing new employees with the code easier, but also facilitates inter-departmental work for employees moving from project to project.

Hobbyists and Solo Developers will also find Standards Master useful, since it allows them to develop consistent programming habits.

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