Naming Convention is one of developers’ rules. nTier On Time adopts “Naming Guidelines” by Microsoft with little changes. Please see details http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229045(v=vs.110).aspx

Solution Naming Convention

Solution Name is the .dbml name. nTier On Time users can change it in the future.

It is root namespace of all types in this solution.

There are 2 solution files generated which contains same set of projects:

• “{SolutionName}.sln” – should be used by developers. It is organized by component structure. Each solution folder is mapped to a physical folder.
• “{SolutionName}.map.sln” – should be used by Architects/Managers. It is organized by component numbers. Solution folders are mapped to a physical folder.

Project Naming Convention

There 2 parts of project name: Second part is short writing component name.

For Framework Components, first part is "Framework"

For Generated Components, first part is "{SolutionName}"

Type and Type Member Naming Convention

There are a lot of documents describing “Type and Type Member Naming Convention”. nTier On Time adopts “Naming Guidelines” by Microsoft.