Does Visual Studio/Microsoft discourage the use of underscore prefixes for private member fields? Should we not use it?

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  • Entity Framework

    EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.

    • Even Microsoft itself uses the underscore prefix. Maybe not all teams but a lot of them do. See for example EF Core: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/blob/main/src/EFCore/DbContext.cs.

  • .NET Runtime

    .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

    • There is this https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/master/docs/coding-guidelines/coding-style.md

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    • https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/18d8e7c9a135e0b042a079823d9ef95c63b84b33/.editorconfig#L107

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