What names do you find yourself prepending/appending to classes regularly?

Question

Which nouns do you find yourself putting regularly at the end of your classes?

For example, I have a habit of sticking Info onto classes that pass information around but don't do a great deal:

• ImportInfo
• SiteInfo

Or for Coordinating classes:

• UserManager
• SecurityManager

I end up using Builder quite often for string related classes, even if it barely does any building:

• TemplateBuilder
• HtmlBuilder

And of course the timeless Helper/Utility class:

• PhraseHelper
• NumberUtility
• FileHelper

Have you got any good, by which I mean concise and descriptive, nouns or words you regularly use to denote the class' main role?

This question is aimed at the .NET world, but can extend to Java, C++, Python and so on.

Answer 1

Util

• EnumUtil
• ParseUtil
• StringUtil
• etc ...

Answer 2

I use Provider and Helper a lot.

Answer 3

If my class is specifically doing calculations, I will prepend Calc

Examples:

• TaxCalc
• TipCalc
• DateCalc

Answer 4

why of course...

Base

works both sides.

;-)

Answer 5

Factory

Also:

Provider

Answer 6

• Factory
• Helper
• Utils
• Job
• Entity

Answer 7

Controller and View.

Answer 8

Tests for unit test classes

Answer 9

Base, Reader, Writer, Manager, File.. some others.

Answer 10

I append pattern name at the end if i follow one (i.e. FooRepository).
Trying to avoid -Helper, -Manager, -Utils.

Answer 11

On occasion I use

Target

As in

• UploadTarget
• ProcessingTarget

I don't think I had before Silverlight / WPF but I now also use

Converter

As in:

• CurrentTimeDisplayConverter
• TimeDeltaConverter

Answer 12

I find myself sometimes appending the name of the parent class the one I'm writing I want to inherit. Sometimes it sounds weird especially with an Animal example (DogAnimal, FishAnimal, ...) but it makes finding subtypes easier in a list of classes.

Answer 13

I am often using :

• Protocol (Specific protocol implementation)
• Manager (Class managing the process)
• Emulator (Emulate something...)