Microsoft VB.NET naming convention

Question

Is there any standard naming convention for VB.NET ?

Based your programming experiences, would like to share your naming convention for VB.NET ?

Are there any guides for this kind of good practice besides patterns & practices Guidance Explorer and Guidance Share ?

Thanks. Happy Weekend.

Answer 1

VB.NET shares the naming convention of the .NET Framework. PascalCase for types and public stuff, camelCase otherwise.

Answer 2

I use this guide: http://www.irritatedvowel.com/Programming/Standards.aspx

Answer 3

Take a peek at this question. It is essentially the same question regarding C#, however most of of the links and answers provided apply to both languages.

Answer 4

As Mehrdad said, VB.NET follows the General .NET naming conventions. More specificly:

• Types, events, read-only static fields, methods, namespaces, properties: PascalCase
• Parameters: camelCase
• Acronyms of two characters: DB, with the exception of Id and Ok
• Acronyms of three or more characters: Html or html, depending on context, but never HTML
• Compound words: Hashtable, not HashTable, except for some common terms like FileName
• Do not use separators like hyphens (-) or underscores (_) between words
• Do not use Hungarian notation

Answer 5

Enable Visual Studio "Code Analysis" to check your code against several Microsoft-sanctioned naming conventions.