Naming Conventions
Assigning comprehensible identifiers to types and members is a best practice in every development environment. This becomes a rule in .NET development, especially if you want your code to be CLS-compliant. To understand this, you need to first know that the Common Language Specification enables only two notations, Pascal and camel. If you are an old Visual Basic 6 or Visual C++ developer, you might be familiar with the Hungarian notation that is not supported by .NET rules. An identifier is Pascal-cased when the first letter of each word composing the identifier is uppercase. The following identifier is Pascal-case: FirstName. An identifier is instead defined as camel-case when the first character of the first word composing ...
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