Best naming for a property?

.net, c#, naming-conventions

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I would go with 1. I prefer not to abbreviate anything, unless it's a super-common acronym that would be ridiculous to spell out. Something like "HyperTextTransferProtocolRequest" would be ridiculous to spell out, so it's safe to abbreviate that as "HttpRequest." It's a little subjective, but when in doubt, I tend to not abbreviate.

If you decide to go with 2 or 3, I'd probably vote for 3, based on the recommendations from the "Framework Design Guidelines." It basically says that for acronyms that are 3 or more letters long, you should capitalize the first letter and lower-case the rest. It's a little ambiguous on 2-letter acronyms... Some people prefer to capitalize all letters like "ID" and some prefer to go with "Id". The guideline is to actually capitalize all letters of a 2-letter acronym, but that kind of contradicts with the guideline for 3+ letter acronyms, so people do it both ways.

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