You should use some standards when naming your controls as you add them to forms or other containers. Naming your controls something meaningful becomes an invaluable part of programming when you are dealing with program code. If you are looking at someone else’s program code, you can easily identify the type of control by looking at the control name.

This can save you from navigating between code and form windows to verify what control you are working with.

As a general rule of thumb, you should prefix your control name with three letters that signify what type of control you have and follow that with a name that denotes the control’s purpose.

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