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Welcome to the ClearCanvas wiki!

We hope you enjoy the ClearCanvas project, and will consider contributing back to the community. If that's something you're interested in doing, please review and sign the Contributor License Agreement first, which protects both yourself and ClearCanvas.

If you do submit changes, please endeavour to author code that respects the existing coding conventions. While these conventions and guidelines are not "law", they will help make the code appear more consistent and therefore easier to read and understand.

Coding Conventions

• Naming Conventions
• Code Formatting Conventions
• Documentation Conventions

Discussion

If you have questions, issues, problems and would like a forum to discuss matters regarding ClearCanvas development in general, please use Github's Issues board.

Knowledge Base & Best Practices

• Thread Synchronization - Locking and performance considerations
• Exception Handling - How to think about exceptions and write better exception handling code
• Iterators and the yield statement - Using "yield" to reduce memory usage and improve efficiency
• Singleton Pattern Implementation - How to properly implement a singleton in C#

Tips on building the applications

• Building the RIS from source - How to build the RIS application and set up a development environment.