Question

Question abou naming standards, following .NET standards.

How would you name a control that shows a grid of order objects? It is not an editor, but allows selection of one / more orders.

• OrderGrid

or

• OrdersGrid ?

Basically: Singular for the object shown, or plural?

We are in some quarrels here.

Note: the name is exposed to the user. The UI allows composition of the UI from controls, so the name shows up in a selectot for UI controls.

Answer 1

If the grid shows or represents multiple orders at once, i’d consider pluralizing. (That’s not a hard rule, though — “orders grid”, “orders viewer” and the like sound odd to me.)

I’d opt for the singular by default, though, unless there’s a reason to make it clear that there’s multiple orders in there.