Naming Question

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Yes, I know.  I was referring to the case of the letters within the identifier.  I thought that was blindingly obvious. :) /ravi

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[Lost User]

With programmers, nothing is "obvious" unless it's in the specs. I assumed that everyone would simply follow the guidelines from Microsoft, making this a non-question.

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[BobJanova]

'filename' (or 'Filename' if it's a property or 'DoSomethingWithFilename' etc) for me. I think of filename as a single composite word.

[Tim Groven]

LOL!

[Tim Groven]

What if it doesn't have a path, just the name of the file itself?

[Tim Groven]

Probably a dumb question, but where can I find the Microsoft guidelines for this? :(

[Lost User]

Caydence wrote:

Probably a dumb question

It's not, but I'm glad to see that you rather make a "dumb" impression and get an answer than look intelligent and move on without one. Here they are[^] :)

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[Lost User]

Did you used to have lots of lngFilename or blnFilenames as well? ;P

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[Lost User]

fileName and filenameAndPath. Meh.. ..is that with or without extension? A UNC-path, or local?

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[Tim Groven]

I don't mind admitting I don't know something. :)

[Pete OHanlon]

Then just filename. It's a standard concatenation and MS is fairly clear on naming for contractions like this; all lower case.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Eddy Vluggen wrote:

the guidelines from Microsoft

So, ummm... explain why Hashtable and DataTable don't agree. :suss:

[PIEBALDconsult]

For a (local) variable or a private field I use the former; otherwise "FileName". Camel case is only for use with Hungarian; and Hungarian is to be avoided. X|

[Lost User]

I'm not an employee, and I didn't claim it was consistent. It is however, always a good starting place for ideas, and a good place to end discussions.

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

VS' Code Analysis' built-in dictionary checks your identifiers for spelling, grammatical case and other naming conventions of the .NET Framework guidelines.  It's a great a way to gets started, and it's easy to modify/override spellings and naming conventions where necessary. /ravi

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[V 0]

variables: filename Properties, classes, methods... : FileName I hate constructs like sFileName or bMyBool to also indicate the type and also gVariable or _variable to indicate global or class variables, but that might be personal. ;)

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[Keith Barrow]

I personally prefer filename just as other people have stated, it is easy to read. Arguably it is becoming part of the language as a single word, I tend to think of filename as a more specific concept than name of a file that the version with the space implies. As an aside some dictionaries seem to agree .http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/filename[^]. FXCop disagrees and insists on fileName (see this blog post/[^]), and consistency are important. I'd rather agree with the framework and I assume MS uses FXCop's default rules .I can't find an example of fileName, but I'm 75% sure I've seen it somewhere... As a second point filename looks odd set aside filePath. So the answer is for consistancy go for fileName, but filename isn't so bad that you shouldn't use it if you find it easier to read, the important thing is to stick to one version in your code.

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[SilimSayo]

That's because one is a republican and the other, a democrat.

[SilimSayo]

I saw a variable declared as longAss. Ass was short for assignment no.

[Lost User]

That'd be a bigAss in Sql Server types :-D

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