>I'm not taking sides, just curious why you think the naming convention in .NET is unorthodox.
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>I do have some responses to some of the other things that have been said by others in this thread, but wanted to start with this one.

I haven't read an official book on the .NET naming convention topic but after two years in that area, many are saying that most of the samples found on the .NET do contain a good naming convention and I have to disagree. I would say that up to 80% of all the samples I have been faced with during the last two years contains practically zero in regards to that. Or, maybe Google has some kind of condition in it for a search initiated by MF so to return bad examples. :)

Here is an example of what I am talking about:

Dim dt As New DataTable

should have been something like:

Dim loDataTableInventory As New DataTable

or

Dim oDataTableInventory As New DataTable

At least, with that, I would know if that is a variable of the method of a property of the object. And, the naming of the entity does contain a good representation of what it is. But, a two-letter word! Outch!