Nice... now I don't feel so bad for my "m_" breach of MS's best practices.

>Alan,
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>We don't use "My" or company intials, but we *do* use something a little quirky. If you want any ideas, I'd suggest something like "Base" (as in BaseTextBox, BaseComboBox, etc). Ours are all prefaced by "KA" ... it's a long story as to where we came up with that, but let's just say it stands for "Kick A**". <g>
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>~~Bonnie
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>>Hello Viv, thanks for the reply.
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>>>In practice the MS suggestions are probably no better than other schemes but at least these are the conventions followed by the framework classes themselves and by most MS code examples.....
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>>While I have seen many examples of class naming, there are surprisingly few regarding subclassing the base controls (apart from with the 'My' prefix). I guess I'll have to roll-my-own naming which sticks as close as possible to the MSFT standards.
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>>Regards,
>>Alan