What names do you find yourself prepending/appendi

Question

Which nouns do you find yourself putting regularly at the end of your classes?

For example, I have a habit of sticking Info onto classes that pass information around but don't do a great deal:

• ImportInfo
• SiteInfo

Or for Coordinating classes:

• UserManager
• SecurityManager

I end up using Builder quite often for string related classes, even if it barely does any building:

• TemplateBuilder
• HtmlBuilder

And of course the timeless Helper/Utility class:

• PhraseHelper
• NumberUtility
• FileHelper

Have you got any good, by which I mean concise and descriptive, nouns or words you regularly use to denote the class' main role?

This question is aimed at the .NET world, but can extend to Java, C++, Python and so on.

Answer 1

I find myself sometimes appending the name of the parent class the one I'm writing I want to inherit. Sometimes it sounds weird especially with an Animal example (DogAnimal, FishAnimal, ...) but it makes finding subtypes easier in a list of classes.

Answer 2

Controller and View.

Answer 3

Base, Reader, Writer, Manager, File.. some others.

Answer 4

Util

• EnumUtil
• ParseUtil
• StringUtil
• etc ...

Answer 5

You can take a look at source-code-wordle.de, I have analyzed there the most frequently used suffixes of class names of the .NET framework and some other libraries.

The top 20 are:

• attribute
• type
• helper
• collection
• converter
• handler
• info
• provider
• exception
• service
• element
• manager
• node
• option
• factory
• context
• item
• designer
• base
• editor

Answer 6

Factory

Also:

Provider