diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fefd90b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{
+    "name": "microsoft/sql-server-samples",
+    "description": "Official Microsoft GitHub Repository containing code samples for SQL Server",
+    "type": "project",
+    "require": {
+        "php": ">=7.0.0"
+    },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "^3.5"
+    },
+    "license": "MIT",
+    "minimum-stability": "stable"
+}
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2a25733c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+{
+    "_readme": [
+        "This file locks the dependencies of your project to a known state",
+        "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
+        "This file is @generated automatically"
+    ],
+    "content-hash": "49a34ccb792321ec81984328df884636",
+    "packages": [],
+    "packages-dev": [
+        {
+            "name": "squizlabs/php_codesniffer",
+            "version": "3.5.5",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer.git",
+                "reference": "73e2e7f57d958e7228fce50dc0c61f58f017f9f6"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/zipball/73e2e7f57d958e7228fce50dc0c61f58f017f9f6",
+                "reference": "73e2e7f57d958e7228fce50dc0c61f58f017f9f6",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "ext-simplexml": "*",
+                "ext-tokenizer": "*",
+                "ext-xmlwriter": "*",
+                "php": ">=5.4.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.0 || ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^7.0"
+            },
+            "bin": [
+                "bin/phpcs",
+                "bin/phpcbf"
+            ],
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "3.x-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "BSD-3-Clause"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Greg Sherwood",
+                    "role": "lead"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer",
+            "keywords": [
+                "phpcs",
+                "standards"
+            ],
+            "time": "2020-04-17T01:09:41+00:00"
+        }
+    ],
+    "aliases": [],
+    "minimum-stability": "stable",
+    "stability-flags": [],
+    "prefer-stable": false,
+    "prefer-lowest": false,
+    "platform": {
+        "php": ">=7.0.0"
+    },
+    "platform-dev": [],
+    "plugin-api-version": "1.1.0"
+}