Question

In a LINQ to SQL statement I’ve got a column name in the database that’s also a C# keyword (void). How do I get the compiler to treat this as an object property and not the keyword?

I could re-write this in with the method notation, sure, but there’s got to be a way to give the compiler a hint here…

var p = from c in mytable         where c.id = rowNumber         select ( new { voidedState = c.void } );  // <--- Problem is here 

The error is:

Identifier expected; 'void' is a keyword 

I can’t argue with that, I’m just looking for a workaround.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Precede the identifier with a ‘@’:

@void 

Is the name of an identifier ‘void’, not the keyword (this works anywhere an identifier is needed).