Naming Conventions for Visual Controls

[Lalit]

Hi Friends,

We are defining coding standards for our company.

In MSDN i have seen that hungarian notation will not be used in naming of
variables etc. What about the controls ? Should we eliminate prefixes from
these also. What do u suggest?
Thanks in Advance
Lalit

[Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]]

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Hi Friends,

We are defining coding standards for our company.

In MSDN i have seen that hungarian notation will not be used in naming of
variables etc. What about the controls ? Should we eliminate prefixes from
these also. What do u suggest?


That is a difficult question, ;).

Naming control variables is difficult, and since in general they are private
variables you should feel free to use whatever convention best suits your
company. Using hungarian is probably easier if you are doing alot of direct
codiing against controls and using standard naming(as in nameTextBox) when
the majority of control work will be handled in a designer or codegen. But
again, that is a matter of comfort.

I personally use of VB6 style hungarian naming for simple controls(lists,
text boxes, buttons), but do not use them for composite controls or more
complex third party controls.