For those of us that have programmed enough I’m sure we have come across many different flavours of coding standards that you can use when it comes to programming.

e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229042.aspx

You might derive your coding standards for the current company you work for or from the original author of the code you’re working on. Coding styles are often used for specific program languages and some styles in one coding language might not be considered appropriate for others. Of course some coding standards can be applied across many different program languages.

My question is do you have any good advice/links yourselves to a set of coding standards that you would recommend to others, or best practices to follow?

Thank you for your time.

EDIT: As we know there are many related articles on this subject, but C# Coding standard / Best practices in SO has some very useful links in there which is worth a visit. (Check out the 2 links on .NET/C# guidelines by ESV - Accepted Answer)