I am very agreeable with the underscore since it takes advantage of Intellisense for seeing my private/protected fields quickly. It should not matter what you name a field because it should always be accessed through a property. What I would like to hear some opinions on is the naming of User Interface controls such that I don't want my default event handlers looking really crazy i.e. do you: btnValidate buttonValidate validateButton (something else) cneff78

Can anyone point me to an example that seperates your Windows Form and it's events away from the class that actually carries out your Application logic?

I know how to do this through explorer and how to 'open' and 'close' IO to the serial ports but I actually want to disable them. How would I do this progmatically??