You may wish to consider a more agile approach... I would recommend reading "applying uml and patterns" by Craig Larman. The answer to your question then becomes Whiteboard.

It seems to me you are asking the wrong question. Your business requirements, to support OS's past the point of supplier support and machines past their useful life force you to use tools developed when these OS's and machines were top spec. Instead I would ask "how can I change our development process to encorage refactoring and better design?" The answers might include pair programming, code reviews, documentation, design reviews, agile management techniques such as SCRUM, or any combination of elements. At some point you will have to take the pain and update but the real business benifit must outweigh the desire to play with the latest toys.

I would think I had written code that was less than ideal. All code ownership is theft. All code should be written for the eys of a future maintainer not the author. All designs should be open and extendable, by anyone with a reasonable skill level. The boss owns the code sho he can do with it what he will. The collegue, assuming a reasonable level of skill and care, should have been able to change you code without error. If not then your code is too fragile and you are at fault. People who think they are code gurus and are overly protective of their code are generally counter productive and should be replaced.

Hungarian fails not only because in the world of modern IDEs it has less intrinsic value but it also makes it a pain to maintain code. Before deploying any convention ask if it really adds any value and what pain could it cause in the future? If these conventions make sense for you to adopt then go for it ! I, however, will probably not be following your pioneering lead. At least in the near term.

TopCoder23 wrote:

Question: what do you call a char *? char * pntrCharArray = "Char Pointer"; CString cstrString;

// if the pointer will not be used for any other strings LPCTSTR typeName = _T("Char Pointer") ;