I want to generate aliases for properties in generated code. All I could do so far was:
partial class Purchase
{
public User Customer
{
get
{
return this.User;
}
set
{
this.User = value;
}
}
}
I wonder if there is any other way to define an alias in C#. The Purchase
class was generated by Linq-to-SQL
The Alias property specifies an alternative name, an alias, for the name of a persistent type. By default, the short name of the type without its namespace is used. Alias names are convenient for specifying classes in OQL queries.
An alias can be any name used in place of a birth name. While there may be legitimate reasons for using another name, this is often used by criminals, as they don't wish to have their true identity revealed, or they have a short nickname they go by instead of their birth name.
In the case that you want a different name of property to send information to JSON using newtonSoft, you can use
[JsonProperty("alias_name")]
public type YourProperty {get;set;}
This can help you if you don't want that your object follow the C# convention and match with the JSON object to be received or sent
No, it's not possible to do in C#. Property name is single identifier you can define for it.
Don't know if this is what you're searching for or not:
but you can define (say) a Dictionary<string,object>
where Key
is a propertyname and value
is a value of the property. In this way you can define dynamic property cash, with changing property names and values at runtime.
or can use an ExpandoObject , if you use C# 4.0
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