Hi Charlie ----

>I like polymorphistic names, so I think MS erred by naming things like PageCount, FormCount, ButtonCount. It's a PageFrame! It has a count! The property should be Count. If something has a Name, I call it Name, not CustName. It's in the Customer table, so that's the context.

I personally agree with the customer table argument, but several server database design tools would disagree.

OTOH, it's PageCount, FormCount, etc. because it's a reference to a collection of the root object, NOT the root object itself. Therefore, PageFrame.Count would be non-sensical. Is this a count of PageFrames? Is this the Count number for this PageFrame? And what about objects that hold multiple collections...they can't all be Count, can they?