What is the meaning of "..::." in C#?

Question

I saw this signature on the ListView class:

public ListView..::.ListViewItemCollection Items { get; }

When I saw that, "What?!"

I searched "dot dot colon colon dot" and "..::." on Google with no result.

Answer 1

That's not C#; that's JScript. In C#, it would be:

public ListView.ListViewItemCollection Items { get; }

It's a little different because ListViewItemCollection is an inner class of ListView.

I'm guessing that you saw this looking at ListView.Items Property (System.Windows.Forms).

If you look at the listing for all the other languages, they're all listed with the JScript syntax. You've found a documentation bug.