With operator

[David]

What is the analog of With operator from VB.NET in C#?

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

David wrote:

What is the analog of With operator from VB.NET in C#?

None, you have to type the names every time. Use copy/paste to speed it up :)

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

David <da*********@hotmail.com> wrote:

What is the analog of With operator from VB.NET in C#?

Please see my response to your identical question four days ago.

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[Niki Estner]

"David" <da*********@hotmail.com> wrote in
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What is the analog of With operator from VB.NET in C#?

I only know With-blocks in VB, where you can treat member variables of an
object as if they were locals. There is no equivalent for this syntax in C#.
I think I've read an interview with the C#-designer (Anders Hejlsberg) where
he explains why: As far as I remember, there are too many special cases
where members of a with-object have the same names as local or member
variables or variables of other with blocks.

Think of something like

Dim i as Int32
Dim o as SomeObject
....
With o do
i = o.SomeProperty
End

If o happens to have a member or property named "i", this code will not
behave as expected!

I think he also claimed that using the object-dot-member syntax everywhere
is more readable, but I guess that's a matter of taste.

Niki