Appendix A -- Coding Conventions

Appendix A

Coding Conventions

This section is based largely upon our original coding conventions appendix in our first edition, written by Mark Hurst and Peet Morris. It describes the coding conventions we used in preparing most of the source code for this book. These conventions are based on extracts from our in-house TMS Visual Basic programmer's manual, VB Vogue (also included as part of the TMS Developer's Framework). You can use this appendix purely to look up type or scope prefixes you don't understand, but you might also want to use our conventions in your own code. Or you might decide to adapt them to suit your own preferences. The important thing is that you have coding conventions and that you apply them uniformly across your code. (If your company is interested in purchasing VB Vogue, please send e-mail to the [e-mail] alias requesting details and availability.)