title: Naming convention for controls
body: <p>Microsoft has naming guidelines on their website (<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xzf533w0(VS.71).aspx" rel="noreferrer">here</a>). Also I have the Framework Design Guidelines book.</p>
  
  <p>What I could not find was a guideline about naming controls.</p>
  
  <p>For example, a button, when dropped to a form, gets the typename + number, camel-cased as default name, such as "button1".</p>
  
  <p>This is what I do: I delete the number and add a meaningful description after. For example "buttonDelete" or "buttonSave".</p>
  
  <p>This way you do not have to maintain a big list of controls and their abbreviated names in a guideline somewhere.</p>
  
  <p>Do you agree?</p>