.net - C# Enums with reserved keywords

Question

I'm opening old C# code from my work using Reflector and I found out that there was an enum in an SQL class which looked like this:

public enum Column
{
        bool
}

You can see that the enum is populated with column types. But I cannot compile that due to "bool" being a reserved keyword. Obviously someone managed to compile it somehow. Is there a fix with like double quotes or something like that?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to prefix with a character literal (@ symbol) in order to use keywords.

MSDN (Thanks @erikH)