Appendix B. Naming Conventions for Access Objects and Variables

By Stan Leszynski, Leszynski Company, Inc., and Kwery Corporation

This appendix describes the Leszynski Naming Conventions (LNC), a set of standardized approaches to naming objects during Access development. These naming conventions were born of necessity, because some members of the staff of my firm spend all day in Access development, year after year. They were also born of a different need—a void that existed in the marketplace due to a lack of consensus about development styles among leading Access developers.

I am grateful to Greg Reddick, a former contractor with one of my companies, for jointly authoring the Access 1.x and 2.0 versions of our Access naming conventions with ...

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