Question

Is there a way in .NET to have a class property have a second name or an alias. I want the alias to show in Visual Studio Intellisense? The reason is for me to know what property maps to what column in a database and if I put the column name somewhere with the corresponding property, I can easily know how the mappings work.

Answer 1

You could put the column name in an XML comment on the property, e.g.

/// <summary>
/// Maps to column 'foo'
/// </summary>
public int Foo { get; set; }

The content of the XML comment will show in the intellisense tooltip for the Foo property.