Suggested .Net Control Naming Conventions

BackgroundWorker - bgwrk
BindingNavigator - bndnav
BindingSource - bndsrc
Button - btn
CheckBox - chk
CheckedListBox - chklb
ColorDialog - clrdlg
ComboBox - cmb
ContextMenuStrip - cms
DataGridView - grd (I don’t differentiate between variants)
DataSet - ds
DateTimePicker - dtpick
DirectoryEntry - dirent
DirectorySearcher - dirsrc
DomainUpDown - dupdn
ErrorProvider - err
EventLog - evtlog
FileSystemWatcher - fsw
FlowLayoutPanel - pnl (I don’t differentiate between variants)
FolderBrowserDialog - flddlg
FontDialog - fntdlg
GroupBox - grp
HelpProvider - hlp
HScrollBar - hscr
ImageList - imglst
Label - lbl
LinkLabel - lnklbl
ListBox - lb
ListView - lvw
MaskedTextBox - txt (I don’t differentiate between variants)
MenuStrip - mnustrp
MessageQueue - mq
MonthCalendar - cal
NotifyIcon - noticn
NumericUpDown - nupdn
OpenFileDialog - opndlg
PageSetupDialog - pgdlg
Panel - pnl (I don’t differentiate between variants)
PerformanceCounter - prfcnt
PictureBox - pic
PrintDialog - prndlg
PrintDocument - prndoc
PrintPreviewControl - ppc
PrintPreviewDialog - ppd
Process - proc
ProgressBar - prg
PropertyGrid - prpgrd
RadioButton - btn
RichTextBox - txt
SaveFileDialog - savdlg
SerialPort - prt
ServiceController - svcctr
SplitContainer - cntr
Splitter - splt
StatusStrip - stat
TabControl - tabctl
TableLayoutPanel - pnl (I don’t differentiate between variants)
TextBox - txt
Timer - tmr
ToolStrip - tstrp
ToolStripContainer - tstrpctr
ToolStripMenuItem - mnu
ToolTip - tip
TrackBar - tbar
TreeView - tvw
VScrollBar - vscr
WebBrowser - web
ReportViewer - rpt

VB Development Standards

When I was young....here's a document which I created for a client that formed some "grown-up" standards for VB6 development and suggested best-practices.

Somebody might still need it....

http://www.digitaltier.co.uk/knowledge/DevelopmentStandards/VBDevelopmentStandards.zip

Retrieving Recordsets From an Oracle Stored Procedure

An in-depth ASP/VB article detailing how to retrieve multiple column resultsets from an Oracle stored procedure using ADO and Oracle PL/SQL tables. Includes on-line sample and all required SQL code.

Time to share stuff that I've discovered over the years.....
http://www.digitaltier.co.uk/knowledge/OracleStoredProc

VB Technical Interview Questions

Again I'm going back in time but a few eyars ago I created a handy list of techie interview questions for VB developers.

Full details can be found here:

http://www.digitaltier.co.uk/knowledge/VBTestQuestions/Digital%20Tier%20VB%20Questions.doc

Implementing a Generic Site Search using MS Site Server Search

Blimey I'm going back in time here. My own web site includes this little nugget from a few years ago:
Incorporating search capabilities into a site involves the gathering and indexing of information and then providing an interface to query those indexes.

Site Server Search can index documents from many sources, i.e. web sites (both Internet sites and intranet sites), file systems, databases and mail servers. A file system crawl is ideal for those organizations that have many MS Office documents that need to be searched by content. Once a document has been found Search adds various details to an indexed catalog of documents.

The full body of the doc can be found at:
http://www.digitaltier.co.uk/knowledge/SiteSearch