Naming Guidelines and Visual Controls

re: Naming Guidelines and Visual Controls

lexp — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:51:00 GMT

I personally use notation like

MyFirstNameTextBox

"My" prefix is used mainly for intellisense.

re: Naming Guidelines and Visual Controls

Kent Sharkey — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:24:00 GMT

I agree with Phil & Jeff to use a "Property-like" name for the controls - although I tend to use FirstNameCaption (Label) and FirstNameField (TextBox) for my visible controls. Member variables (that back properties) are _whatever and parameters are camelCased as per the guidelines.

re: Naming Guidelines and Visual Controls

Robert McLaws — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:15:00 GMT

I use TextBox_FirstName for my controls. Keeps my code more readable, since we don't have to be SO concerned about the memory footprint. It also helps with Intellisense when you're coding.

It doesn't play as nice as you'd like with the automatic event handler naming conventions, but it still works.

re: Naming Guidelines and Visual Controls

Jeff Gonzalez — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:06:00 GMT

I prefer the more Verbose style of naming:

FirstNameTextBox
CustomerIdDropDownList

After all, we have intellisense =)

re: Naming Guidelines and Visual Controls

Phil Scott — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:58:00 GMT

I'd go with FirstNameLabel myself, and have since 2002. I thought this was the guidelines they were pushing for visual controls.

In fact, try creating a menu with the MenuStrip control in VS2005. If you create a menu item with the caption of Test VS2005 will automatically name it TestToolStripMenuItem.