A Hungarian computer scientist named Charles Simonyi (working for Xerox Parc at the time) developed the Naming Convention known as Hungarian Notation. It was used for loosely typed version of Visual Basic. I was taught to use it when I took a VB6 course. HG was not practical for VB.NET, so under the related links, below, I link to information on Programming Standards and Naming Conventions for those of you using VB.NET. I still like Hungarian notation for VB6 programming.
Hungarian Notation in the chart below is a Visual Basic object-naming reference for Visual Basic 6.0. Microsoft recommends not using HG for Visual Basic.NET.  See Also: Related Links
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/hunganotat.htm  for further information.