The Leszynski Naming Conventions for Microsoft Access: A Primer

Naming conventions are one of the foundation elements of your overall development style. The naming conventions were developed primarily to achieve four objectives:

  • To enable you to quickly understand an application's structure and code by making object names more informative.

  • To simplify team development of applications by creating a standardized vocabulary for all team members.

  • To improve your ability to work with Access objects, including enforcing object name sort orders, creating self-documenting program code, and enhancing find-and-replace capabilities.

  • To increase your ability to create tools for our Access development work, and to create code libraries across various VBA platforms. ...

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