C# private instance variable Naming Convention.

[D3v01D]

Greetings to the programming forum, this is my first post here.

Last week I decided to learn how to program. Language of choice is C#.

My problem is I have one source telling me private instance variables should begin with a lower case letter (like 'p')
and another telling me they should begin with an underscore ' _ '

Can someone please enlighten me ?

TIA

 

[HHunt]

Stictly speaking it doesn't matter all that much as long as you're consistent. I use _ myself because it's visually easy to distinguish.
(Besides, I think pThis is a bit uglier than _this, but that's definitely a personal thing.)

 

[Deque]

I've read that as well. Although, I use camel case for private methods and pascal case for public methods.

For properties, I use pascal case for the public property and "m_MyPrivateVariable" for the private variables that have properties associated with them.

I don't think I have a particular style for private variables that don't have properties associated with them though. I think I just camel case them just like I do for local variables.

 

[HHunt]

I only PascalCase for class names, absolutely everything else gets simple lowercase or camelCase.
(Except for C, where I use underscore_joins for some reason.)

I'm not very fond of hungarian notation either, though I use the postfix variation now and then.

... Can we have a brace style / indentation war later?
(K&R is the only true style! All others are an affront to serious programmers! )

 

[HJB417]

I do the underscoure + camelCase notation... the sole reason being it makes it easier to distinguish local variables from instance/static variables and avoid variable name clashing. This is more important in working in a multidev project and when methods can contain 300+ lines of code.

 

[Mercypoint]

If you work in a company, they usually have a coding standards. If you follow MS or JAVA camp, they have their own. I personally follow camelCase with Hungarian notation because it is easy for me to read.

Check this guy's blog out. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000023.html

 

[Stupendous]

I do the underscoure + camelCase notation... the sole reason being it makes it easier to distinguish local variables from instance/static variables and avoid variable name clashing. This is more important in working in a multidev project and when methods can contain 300+ lines of code.

Uh, methods shouldn't be 300+ lines of code.

My company uses _ and I use _ for my projects.