Of T or Of TEntity?

Question

I know this is a stupid question maybe, but what is the naming standard for generics?

Of t or Of TEntity or Of... it doesn't really matter?

I see IQueryable(Of T) but then DBSet(Of TEntity).

Answer 1

Microsoft makes the following recommendations in Generics FAQ: Best Practices:

Name generic type parameters with descriptive names, unless a single letter name is completely self explanatory and a descriptive name would not add value. [...] If you have no additional contextual information about the type parameter, you should use the letter T.

Public Class SomeClass(Of T)

Public Interface ISessionChannel(Of TSession)

I generally follow Microsoft's naming conventions unless I have a really good reason not to, if only because so many other devs do as well, and it's easy to move around different codebases.