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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: Naming Convention for Named Objects?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.031248.25792@microsoft.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 03:12:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Nov13.184516.10985@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Nov13.184516.10985@e2big.mko.dec.com> stonecypher@star.enet.dec.com () writes:
- >
- >Has Microsoft published a spec detailing naming conventions for named
- >objects? Names for named objects are system-global, so it is possible that
- >two different applications will (unintentionally) conflict, choosing the
- >same name for an object.
- >
- >
- >I imagine Microsoft intends developers to embed the organization and
- >application names in the object's name. For example, imagine that
- >Microsoft App1 and Digital App2 both want to create a named pipe:
- >
- > \MICROSOFT\APPLICATION\APP1\MYNAMEDPIPE
- > \DIGITALEQUIPMENT\APPLICATION\APP2\MYNAMEDPIPE
-
- This is a good point. We have previously suggested that "unique"
- names concatenate company, product, data type and version - but
- I'll suggest that something "official" get written into the
- documentation -- Alistair
-