How do I use a C# keyword as a property on an anonymous object?

Question

Using asp.net MVC I'd like to do this inside a view:

<%= Html.TextBox("textbox1", null, new { class="class1" }) %>

This statement does not compile because class is keyword in C#. I'd like to know how I can escape the property names such that this compiles.

It is possible to get this to compile if I change the "class" property to "Class" (uppercase C). But this is not suitable because strict xhtml says that all attributes (and element) names must be lowercase.

Answer 1

You can use keywords in C# as identifiers by prepending @ infront of them.

var @class = new object();

http://mark.michaelis.net/Blog/UsingToDisambiguateKeywordsFromIdentifiersInC.aspx