What’s the use/meaning of the @ character in variable names in C#?

I discovered that you can start your variable name with a ‘@’ character in C#. In my C# project I was using a web service (I added a web reference to my project) that was written in Java. One of the interface objects defined in the WSDL had a member variable with the name “params”. … Read more

What does the @ symbol before a variable name mean in C#? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Closed 10 years ago. Possible Duplicate: What’s the use/meaning of the @ character in variable names in C#? I understand that the @ symbol can be used before a string literal to change how the compiler parses the string. But what does it mean when a variable name is … Read more