How would you name...

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Published on 2010-06-16T07:14:35Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 7:22 UTC
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Since naming is a so important thing in programming, I would like to start a thread for giving help to all those that have same problems as I sometimes.

Rules: Set a post with the description of the form||control||class or whatever you need to find a good name for. Get name hints in the answers.

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