C# equivalent of VB's With statement

[digiduck]

What is the C# equivalent of VB's 'With/End With' statement?

 

[chiph]

It doesn't have one, per-se.

What you can do, though is if you have a deeply nested object that you want to do the equivalent of the With..EndWith to, is assign it to a temporary variable, so your list of dots isn't so long.

For example, if you have a Forest.Tree.Branch.Twig.Leaf hierarchy, you can create a temporary Twig object to shorten the code somewhat. So instead of:

Forest.Tree(0).Branch(2).Twig(0).Leaf(0).Color = Red;
Forest.Tree(0).Branch(2).Twig(0).Leaf(1).Color = Yellow;
Forest.Tree(0).Branch(2).Twig(0).Leaf(2).Color = Yellow;
Forest.Tree(0).Branch(2).Twig(0).Leaf(3).Color = Green;

you can do something like:

Twig MyTwig = Forest.Tree(0).Branch(2).Twig(0);
MyTwig.Leaf(0).Color = Red;
MyTwig.Leaf(1).Color = Yellow;
MyTwig.Leaf(2).Color = Yellow;
MyTwig.Leaf(3).Color = Green;

The technique is probably only useful when you're setting/accessing 5 or more properties/methods in a row.

Chip H.

 

[digiduck]

okey dokey. Thank you.