Naming Conventions
We use a simplified form of Hungarian notation, a naming convention that takes its name from the nationality of its creator, Charles Simonyi. Certain elements of Hungarian notation are used in Microsoft's Visual Basic manuals. Microsoft also uses Hungarian notation internally as part of its coding conventions, as do many developers around the world. Our simplified form of this notation is used to attach both type and scope information to various object names. Hungarian notation uses character prefixes to denote type, aggregation, and scope, and the full system gets rather complicated. The subset we've chosen for our purposes is defined in the following sections and in the tables that appear at the end of this appendix.