>>>>>Are you using naming that reuses identifiers by changing case? Have you run out of all possible alphanumeric combinations or what?
>>>
>>>I do this routinely to simplify remembering form and report names:
>>>FrmCustomer frmCustomer = new FrmCustomer();
>>>
>>>Is that frowned upon?
>>
>>Nope, that's precisely what is best practice in naming conventions... You can tell immediately from the casing what the scope of the variable is...
>
>The scope? I thought that in Bill's example it distinguished between a class type and an instance of a class. No?

Yes in this example that's true.

But:

MyName
myName
_myName
this.MyName

are all valid names but the casing tells you the scope of the variable.