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Is there an official convention for naming private fields in VB.NET? For example, if I have a property called 'Foo', I normally call the private field '_Foo'. This seems to be frowned upon in the Offical Guidelines:
"Do not use a prefix for field names. For example, do not use g_ or s_ to distinguish static versus non-static fields."
In C#, you could call the private field 'foo', the property 'Foo', and refer to the private field as 'this.foo' in the constructor. As VB.NET is case insensitive you can't do this - any suggestions?
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We have to start a variable name with a double underscore to represent it as a private variable (not really). Example:- one, two, etc..,. As we already said the variables whose names start with a double underscore are not private.
When you name an element in your Visual Basic application, the first character of that name must be an alphabetic character or an underscore. Note, however, that names beginning with an underscore are not compliant with the Language Independence and Language-Independent Components (CLS).
The naming rules for variables in VB are as follows: the name must begin with a letter, followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, and/or underscore characters. the name may not contain spaces. the name cannot be a keyword.
A variable's name can be any legal identifier — an unlimited-length sequence of Unicode letters and digits, beginning with a letter, the dollar sign " $ ", or the underscore character " _ ". The convention, however, is to always begin your variable names with a letter, not " $ " or " _ ".
I still use the _ prefix in VB for private fields, so I'll have _foo as the private field and Foo as the property. I do this for c# as well and pretty much any code I write. Generally I wouldn't get too caught up in "what is the right way to do it" because there isn't really a "right" way (altho there are some very bad ways) but rather be concerned with doing it consistently.
At the end of the day, being consistent will make your code much more readable and maintainable than using any set of "right" conventions.
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