C++ Coding Standards

1:Correctness, simplicity, and clarity come first

 2:Make interfaces easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly3:pOne entity one cohesive responsibility 4:

Const-correctness

5:Avoid macros

6:Make header files self-sufficient

7:Minimize definitional dependencies. Avoid cyclic dependencies

8:pResource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII)

 9:Smart pointers

10:Avoid type switching; prefer polymorphism
11:Minimize casting
12:Don’t use C-style casts 13:

Don’t use unsafe functions

14:

Don’t use varargs (ellipsis)

else to reference

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datavisualization.charting.datapoint_members.aspx