C# keyword list programatically

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Hello,

Could someone please tell me how I can get a list of c# keywords (e.g.
'event') programmatically at runtime?

Many thanks,

Ronnie
 
Ronnie Smith said:
Could someone please tell me how I can get a list of c# keywords (e.g.
'event') programmatically at runtime?
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Well, only by having a hard-coded list of them. They're not exposed by
anything in the framework as far as I'm aware.
 
Hello Ronnie,

there is no way for this, they are hard-codded.

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RS> Hello,
RS>
RS> Could someone please tell me how I can get a list of c# keywords
RS> (e.g. 'event') programmatically at runtime?
RS>
RS> Many thanks,
RS>
RS> Ronnie
RS>
 
Thanks for the reply Jon. I was hoping that there would be a framework
solution since my hardcoded list may no longer be complete at the next .NET
release.

OK - I'll work with the hardcoded list.

Ronnie
 
Ronnie Smith said:
Thanks for the reply Jon. I was hoping that there would be a framework
solution since my hardcoded list may no longer be complete at the next .NET
release.

OK - I'll work with the hardcoded list.
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Well, C# 3 is about to come out but I wouldn't expect C# 4 any time
soon, and the C# 3 spec is nailed down now.

There are various *contextual* keywords in C# 3, but no new "real"
keywords as such. What are you wanting to do with the keywords? If it's
something like syntax highlighting, it's worth using the contextual
keywords.
 
Ronnie Smith kirjoitti:
Thanks for the reply Jon. I was hoping that there would be a framework
solution since my hardcoded list may no longer be complete at the next .NET
release.
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Why do you need the list? If you are afraid of using keywords in your
code, you can protect them with @ sign, like:

using System;
namespace Keyword{
class Program{
static void Main(string[] args) {
int @int = 2;
int @foo = 4;
Console.WriteLine("values {0} {1}", @int, @foo);
}
}
}

So, you can protect keywords with @, but it does not matter in front of
non keyword.
 
Arto,

I have a tool which can load a c/c++ header file and automatically create a
c# wrapper for the corresponding DLL - allowing the old style DLL to be
accessed from .NET. However sometimes the parameters names are actually c#
keywords. Yes, I could add an underscore or the '@' symbol before each one,
but I thought that the cleaner way would be to preserve the original
parameter names where possible and only ammend them if needed. Hence my
request to programmatically ascertain the c# keywords.

Ronnie

Arto Viitanen said:
Ronnie Smith kirjoitti:
Thanks for the reply Jon. I was hoping that there would be a framework
solution since my hardcoded list may no longer be complete at the next .NET
release.
Click to expand...

Why do you need the list? If you are afraid of using keywords in your
code, you can protect them with @ sign, like:

using System;
namespace Keyword{
class Program{
static void Main(string[] args) {
int @int = 2;
int @foo = 4;
Console.WriteLine("values {0} {1}", @int, @foo);
}
}
}

So, you can protect keywords with @, but it does not matter in front of
non keyword.
Click to expand...
 
Hi Ronnie,

Thanks for your background information.

The C# language keywords are part of the C# language specification which is
not defined in the .Net Framework(which can target many other languages).
Actually, the CLI will have no knowledge of these C# language keywords.
These C# keywords are built in the C# compiler not the .Net Framework.
Also, certain C# compiler vendor may add its own standard C# language
extension keywords.

So I think you have to build a hard-list for the C# keywords. Hope this
helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for taking the time to explain the issue to me.

Best regards,

Ronnie
 
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