Newbie question about PascalCase

Question

ReSharper extension of VS suggest me to use PascalCase in below property.

public Color Color { get; private set; }

Here Color is Enum type. I would never thought this can be possible because it is same name with type. But it is valid. Is it something suggested by general rules ? Do I have to listen ReSharper always ? Would be appreciated good reference links for PascalCase.

Answer 1

This is called the Color Color problem actually and is explained here;

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/07/06/color-color.aspx

And yes, it is supposed to work and follows the naming typically agreed upon naming convention rules. I would leave it as you show it in your example.

Answer 2

Yes this is recommended. I suggest that you folloe ReSharper guidelines, especially if you are new to programming.

Wikipedia article about CamelCase has some useful information.

Answer 3

The syntax highlighting on here makes it particularly confusing, but the compiler know when to expect a type and when to expect a name so its no problem.

Answer 4

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229043.aspx

The following guidelines provide the general rules for identifiers.

Do use Pascal casing for all public member, type, and namespace names consisting of multiple words.

Listen to ReSharper ;)