Steve,

See this: it will also lead you to other places:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsent7/html/vxconcodingtechniques.asp

Also, look here, he still seems to belive in hungarian for variables:

http://www.xoc.net/standards/reddickdotnetconventions.asp

>The other thing is distinguishing private fields and their associated properties.

This is usually done with case in c# and an underscore in vb.

BOb