Programming Visual Basic .NET, Second Edition

Identifiers

Identifiers are names that programmers choose for their types, methods, variables, constants, objects, and so forth. An identifier must begin with a letter or an underscore.

The Microsoft naming conventions suggest using Camel notation (initial lowercase such as someName) for variable names (see Section 3.4) and Pascal notation (initial uppercase such as SomeOtherName) for method names and most other identifiers. (Examples are provided later in this chapter and in subsequent chapters.)

Identifiers cannot clash with keywords. Thus, you cannot create a variable named Integer or Module. In addition, Visual Basic .NET identifiers are not case-sensitive, so myVariable and MyVariable are treated as the same variable names.