Syntax Question, C# 2005

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I found the following code example in the Visual Studio help:

private void AddOutOfOfficeColumn()
{
DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn column = new
DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn();
{
column.HeaderText = ColumnName.OutOfOffice.ToString();
column.Name = ColumnName.OutOfOffice.ToString();
column.AutoSizeMode =
DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.DisplayedCells;
column.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Standard;
column.ThreeState = true;
column.CellTemplate = new DataGridViewCheckBoxCell();
column.CellTemplate.Style.BackColor = Color.Beige;
}

DataGridView1.Columns.Insert(0, column);
}

I am wondering what this means when the the curly braces are used
after the constructor of the DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn. Thanks in
advance.
 
In this case... nothing; it is probably an artefact of an "if" block
that got removed.

In the more general case, braces *used in this way* can be used to
scope variables, but that is about it. There are of course many other
brace meanings with blocks, delegates, etc.

Marc
 
I found the following code example in the Visual Studio help:

private void AddOutOfOfficeColumn()
{
DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn column = new
DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn();
{
column.HeaderText = ColumnName.OutOfOffice.ToString();
column.Name = ColumnName.OutOfOffice.ToString();
column.AutoSizeMode =
DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.DisplayedCells;
column.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Standard;
column.ThreeState = true;
column.CellTemplate = new DataGridViewCheckBoxCell();
column.CellTemplate.Style.BackColor = Color.Beige;
}

DataGridView1.Columns.Insert(0, column);
}

I am wondering what this means when the the curly braces are used
after the constructor of the DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn. Thanks in
advance.
Click to expand...

Doesn't mean much of anything in this code. If a variable had been declared
within the curly braces, then its life would be scoped to the end of the
curly braces (or that's the way it worked in C++ and I assume C# is the
same). I suspect you saw this at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridviewcheckboxcell.aspx
or one of the other articles that have that code example. Looks to me like
some automated tool was used to generate the C# code for the example,
possibly from the VB.NET code in the same example, and the tool didn't
properly handle the With/End With code in the VB.NET example. But that's
just a guess.
 
Doesn't mean much of anything in this code. If a variable had been declared
within the curly braces, then its life would be scoped to the end of the
curly braces (or that's the way it worked in C++ and I assume C# is the
same). I suspect you saw this athttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagri...
or one of the other articles that have that code example. Looks to me like
some automated tool was used to generate the C# code for the example,
possibly from the VB.NET code in the same example, and the tool didn't
properly handle the With/End With code in the VB.NET example. But that's
just a guess.
Click to expand...

Thank you for the responses. I suspected the same but couldn't be
sure.
 
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