Re: Naming Conventions - Should I use them?

I wouldn't do any Access programming (and other environments) without naming
conventions. Jeff Conrad has some links at
http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie/resources.html#NamingConventions
and Tony Toews http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/tablefieldnaming.htm

--
Duane Hookom
MS Access MVP


"Douglas J. Steele" <NOSPAM_djsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The "no naming conventions" school of thought seems to be associated with
> .Net, not Access. I believe the rationale is that there are so many more
> objects in .Net that it's virtually impossible to come up with meaningful
> acroynyms to use as prefixes. As well, the intellisense is much better, so
> you can get easily get information about a variable (other than the scope,
> I believe) without needing a prefix.
>
> That having been said, I still use a naming convention in .Net: old habit
> die hard! <g>
>
> --
> Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
> http://I.Am/DougSteele
> (no e-mails, please!)
>
>
>
> "JM" <JM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:BF10A842-F129-448E-BFD0-1C459F87072B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I am starting a db and I have recently heard that naming conventions are
>>no
>> longer recommended. This goes against any traditional understanding I
>> was
>> aware of. Does anyone have any thoughts on the subject?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> JM
>
>


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