privateMembers?

How do you name your private members?

camelCased or PascalCased?

I think the use of camelCase syntax to name the private members provides a high level of readibality because you know where you are (Public or private) without to look to the member definition.

However, reading code from GDN, people prefer to use PascalCase for everything. All the documentation I've found talking about this topic, only covers Public members so, I suppose you should have freedom to name your privates as you want, but inside a team a general coding standard is a good thing.

What do you think?

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 06, 2004
  I'd recomend using camelCase for private member and Pacal for public.
  
  some people also prefix private members with "_", but I find it messes up intellisense ;)
• Anonymous
  February 06, 2004
  I believe that FxCop requires camelCase. I try to keep my systems as FxCop compatible as possible.
• Anonymous
  February 06, 2004
  Ditto (although for readability's sake, not to appease the FxCop gods :)
• Anonymous
  February 06, 2004
  I tend to use camelCase for private and public and PascalCase for classes .. that's how I can keep things straight..
  
  IMHO
  Jake
• Anonymous
  February 06, 2004
  camelCase and I prefix all access to them using "this." to easily identify what is a member versus local, etc.
• Anonymous
  February 06, 2004
  Because I use a m_ prefix I find PascalCase easier to read:
  
  m_firstName
  m_FirstName
• Anonymous
  February 07, 2004
  I use
  _firstName
  
  It works both in C# and VB.NET.
• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
  camelCased with an underscore in front of it.
  
  _firstName, just as Jan.
• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
  _firstName for me.
  
  And I don't prefix them with this. either when accessing them.
  
  Public = FirstName
  Private = _firstName
  local = firstName
  
  That's why I use the underscore, to distinguish between local and private. Without it, it's possible to get clashes and it makes the code more readable (IMO).
• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
  I prefer _camelCase for private and PascalCased for public
• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
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• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
  I don't really like the idea of _privateVar but in practice it makes my life easier than privateVar
• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
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• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
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• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
  I use camelCase for private fields, _camelCase for fields that back properties, and PascalCase for everything else.
• Anonymous
  February 10, 2004
  m_camelCase for private fields.
• Anonymous
  February 18, 2008
  Rido has post a kind of poll about the naming of private members. Some comments on using PascalCase,