. Class/object variables start with an underscore.
This has been discussed and there are mixed feelings in the community. I personally dins underscores anywhere in source code painful to the eye. . Method argument variables start with an "a" (argument). . Local method variables start with an "l" (local). I'm surprised no one spanked you over these ones, as Hungarian naming is OUT. You must be one of the last people on the planet doing that in .NET (I hope I'm right?!). Also I switch off all auto formatting so I can do it myself better than the machine will do it, so you will see my code looking like: private string _Name ; // The name that the member is known by private string _MemberNumber ; // Membership number Yoiiks! I don't like that much. I know they eye is good at looking for vertical patterns, but I think this differs too much from the bulk of code around town. We used to have arguments in the 80s about coding COBOL that vertical alignment way. I have a rule I call the 3am rule, you should be able to look at code at 3am and immediately be able to understand what it does and how it does it. If you can't, you need to refactor your code for clarity. I wish modern IDEs could take comments in the form of annotations and callouts in different fonts. Imagine comments like smart tags that could be mouse hovered and expanded and collapsed and formatted like a word processor. This would help at 3am. Greg (K)
