Question

When doing a backing field for a property what are the common naming schemes?

Edit: make question specific to .net

Answer 1

Conventions differ from language to language.

In Delphi, there’s a very strong convention that internal member variables are prefixed with “F” for “Field”.

public 
    property Name : string read FName write FName;

private
    FName : string;

In C++, there’s a similar convention specifying underscore _ as the prefix.

Lots of C# developers use _ or m_ for members, though it’s my understanding that Microsoft officially discourages this.

Update: Corrected an embarrasing mistake – the Delphi convention is F for field, not m for Member.