Hiding variables

Question

Quick silly question: is it possible to hide a variable name used by a property in VB.NET?

I am primarily a C# programmer, and am currently helping out a friend with some VB.NET stuff. Anyway, I have a String called stateprovincename, and a Property called StateProvinceName. VS does not appear to like this naming convention, and declares that they are in fact one and the same. Ideas?

Answer 1

VB.Net is case-insensitve.

• Try something like _stateProvinceName or mStateProvinceName (discussion of naming conventions here).
• Or use an automatic property, which will implicitly declare a hidden backing variable, but you won't be able to write custom code in the Get and Set. Public Property StateProvinceName As String

Answer 2

VB.Net unlike most other languages is not case sensitive with variable names, so standard convention would be add some kind of prefix to the local as to distinguish it from the property.