Class / Method Naming Conventions

[sde]

I am referring to primarily camel case vs pascal case for class names and methods.

I suppose for specifically I am referring to conventions that would be used by Java and c#.

From what I gather, classes which are primarily static in nature begin with a capital.

Classes that are not static, are pascal case.

Same goes for methods? I'm not sure. What is the most common practice for naming classes and methods?

[Belisarius]

C# is all messed up, and I can't speak for it. But in Java, here's how it works.

Classes begin with a capital letter and use a capital letter for every word in the class name. Methods and variables have a lowercase beginning letter and an uppercase letter for the first letter of every subsequent word. Static final fields that are meant to be a reference to some unchanging value (for instance, PI is the name of the variable that represents a double roughly equal to pi).

See http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/ht....doc8.html#367

[sde]

oh cool! i'm glad i asked before i got too deep into this new project.

great link.

thanks!

[Valmont]

C# is all messed up, and I can't speak for it.

I'll come back to this later but now I gotta run.

[Valmont]

For .NET
Type - Case - Notes
Class / Struct - Pascal Casing
Interface - Pascal Casing - Starts with I
Enum values - Pascal Casing
Enum type - Pascal Casing
Events - Pascal Casing
Exception class - Pascal Casing - End with Exception
public Fields - Pascal Casing
Methods - Pascal Casing
Namespace - Pascal Casing
Property - Pascal Casing
Protected/private - Fields Camel Casing
Parameters - Camel Casing

[npa]

Originally posted by Valmont
I'll come back to this later but now I gotta run.

I couldn't agree more that c# naming system is totally annoying
coming from a java background, even more annoying is the
properties that let you pretend you are performing a simple
assignment but are calling some, possible totally obscure,
method.

Having worked with this in the real world it is an
absolute nightmare to have this happen when some junior
programmer goes a little mad and decides to make obscure
use of this behaviour