Question

We have a C++ code that defines a unified naming convention (majorly for multiplatform reasons).
For example:

#define FOO_UINT32 unsigned long
and
#define FOO_TRUE true

now, we want to port some of this code to C#.
For the first define in the example I figured out that I need:

using FOO_UINT32 = System.UInt32;

The question is? How do I do the second one?

Answer 1

Since true is not a type, you can’t utilize a using directive to alias it. You can create a static class with a const member to get a similar result:

public static class PortConstants
{
    public const bool FOO_TRUE = true;
}

Then you can say bool x = PortConstants.FOO_TRUE;. I’d recommend just using true, though.

You may also want to drop the using alias for UInt32 as well, since the CLR type won’t be changing, and is consistent across platforms for which a CLR implementation is available.