Advantages
Using a control naming convention has the advantage of easy readibility, consistency and maintainability of your form.
And RADvolution automatically applies your own preferred naming convention!

                          

 Examples
A few naming examples for a City Label:

 Flexible
Every developer has its own preference of a naming convention.
Some developers use the Hungarian naming convention (e.g. m_txtCity).
In .NET many developers use a name ending with the type of the control
(e.g. CityTextBox).

RADvolution makes it possible to apply your own naming convention.
By default it consists of a variable text part and the name of the control type.
Such as "CityTextBox", where "City" is the variable text part.

You can switch the two parts and apply custom text at the beginning, end or in between. And you can give every type of control a custom name.
E.g. a System.Windows.Forms.TextBox can have a name of "txt".



 Quick solution
Your preferred naming convention is applied in the Quick design window.
There we automatically take care of composing the name of your control.

An example: drag a CheckBox on your form. The Quick design dialog pops up.
Type in the text 'Male?'. The name of the control will be automatically set to 'MaleCheckBox'. Or 'm_chkMale', when using an Hungarian naming convention.

 Reusability
You only have to set your preferred naming convention once! Use it anywhere.
Apply your naming convention on a form and save them as default settings.
Automatically all other forms (and new ones) will use these settings too when new controls are added. You can even override settings on a per form base.

The default settings can be exchanged between forms and applications.
So for a new application, just load the settings of an existing application.

You can even exchange these settings with other RADvolution developers or members of your team.