Name Conventions

Monin D

Hello, When i should to name method with uppercase letter and when not? When I should use getValue() and when GetValue()? Thanks.

Colin Angus Mackay

Use getValue() in Java and GetValue() in .NET

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Monin D

Thanks

Christian Graus

I would use uppercase for a public method, and lower for a private/protected one.

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alex barylski

I typically use an prefixed underscore to indicate private/protected members :) Not that anyone would care :P

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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

Use getValue() in Java and GetValue() in .NET

I second that :-D

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Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

camelCase for members, variables, and parameters. PascalCase for methods, Events, and Properties. Of course we all know that Java style is far superior I don't know why the folks at MS tried to dictate a different style.

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Christian Graus

I thought we were talking about methods. For variables and properties, I do the same. upper/lower case differences are not enough to be CLS compiant, because VB sucks.

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Tim Craig

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

I don't know why the folks at MS tried to dictate a different style.

Because Not Invented Here is alive and rampant at Microsoft. They just, a priori, know what's right.

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Paul Selormey

Christian Graus wrote:

CLS compiant, because VB sucks.

Wrong, it is because CLS==language independence, a feature it boasts off over Java bytecode. BTW, it is your perfect C# compiler that will complain. If you write and consume your components only in C#, just remove the CLS compliant attribute, and stop blaming VB for your bugs ;P With love, Paul.

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Eytukan

Hockey wrote:

I typically use an prefixed underscore

Element names starting with an underscore (_) are not part of the Common Language Specification (CLS), so CLS-compliant code cannot use a component that defines such names.^:->

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How about in VB ? ;P

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Duncan Edwards Jones

Use GetValue() in VB - ....although if you are a proper VB programmer you'll probably be a bit more explicit about what the Value is...

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... or even just Value for accessing a property.

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DavidNohejl

I think that applies to public members/fields only.

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Christian Graus

Paul Selormey wrote:

Wrong, it is because CLS==language independence, a feature it boasts off over Java bytecode.

True -and to make it language independant, they needed to make it case insensitive. Which languages are case insensitive ?

Paul Selormey wrote:

BTW, it is your perfect C# compiler that will complain.

Of course it will. The VB.NET compiler is too stupid to see a difference between var, Var and VAR to start with.

Paul Selormey wrote:

just remove the CLS compliant attribute,

I've been known to do that, actually

Paul Selormey wrote:

and stop blaming VB for your bugs

ROTFL - you're obviously kidding around, but either way, I think a language being case insensitive is just plain dumb. It's obviously a 'feature' added to VB.NET to make it easier, it's not something that has a real advantage beyond that.

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Steve Hansen

However, an underscore in any other position in an element name is CLS-compliant.

So it only matters for public properties/methods which I don't think they do. Just for fields like I do.

DavidNohejl

Steve Hansen wrote:

However, an underscore in any other position in an element name is CLS-compliant.

I understood this as _element is invalid, but element_, my_element etc are OK.

Steve Hansen wrote:

So it only matters for public properties/methods which I don't think they do.

Agreed.

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