RADvolution Control Naming Convention

The RADvolution naming convention technology allows you to easily compose your own prefered naming convention (such as the Hungarian convention). A control naming convention has the advantage of easy readibility, consistency and maintainability of your form controls. <asp:Image id="Image2" runat="server" ImageUrl="\images\Balls\GreenBall.PNG" Height="12px" Width="12px"></asp:Image>  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!                            <asp:Image id="Image6" runat="server" ImageUrl="\images\Animations\NamingAnimation.gif"></asp:Image> <asp:Image id="Image3" runat="server" ImageUrl="\images\Balls\GreenBall.PNG" Height="12px" Width="12px"></asp:Image> Examples A few naming examples for a City Label: <UL> <LI> CityLabel <LI> m_City_Label <LI> _CityLabel <LI> lbCity <LI> lb_City <LI> _lblCity <LI> m_lbl_City <LI> ... whatever you want!</LI></UL> <asp:Image id="Image4" runat="server" ImageUrl="\images\Balls\GreenBall.PNG" Height="12px" Width="12px"></asp:Image>  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". <asp:Image id="Image1" runat="server" ImageUrl="\images\screenshots\NamingConventionSettings.PNG"></asp:Image> <asp:Image id="Image7" runat="server" Width="12px" Height="12px" ImageUrl="\images\Balls\GreenBall.PNG"></asp:Image> Quick solution Your preferred naming convention is applied in the <asp:HyperLink id="HyperLink3" runat="server" Target="_parent" NavigateUrl="RAD_Quick_Design.htm">Quick design</asp:HyperLink> window. There we automatically take care of composing the name of your control. An example: drag a CheckBox on your form. The <asp:HyperLink id="HyperLink2" runat="server" Target="_parent" NavigateUrl="RAD_Quick_Design.htm">Quick design</asp:HyperLink> 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. <asp:Image id="Image5" runat="server" ImageUrl="\images\Balls\GreenBall.PNG" Height="12px" Width="12px"></asp:Image> 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.