Re: What is "this" ?

Normally, you don't need "this", as C# prefixes "this." by default.

However, say you have a member variable and a local variable with the
same name:

class TheUseOfThis : IUntestedExample
{
private string a;

public void MyFunction()
{
string a;

this.a = "assigned to member var";
a = "assigned to local var";
}
}

As you can see you need this to assign to the member variable.

There is no that in C#, of course.

Greetings,
Wessel

-----Original Message-----
From: WJ [mailto:JohnWebbs@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: Sunday, April 10, 2005 3:50 AM
Posted To: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet
Conversation: What is "this" ?
Subject: What is "this" ?

What is "this" that is being used by many asp and asp.net web
applications
and is there "that" object some where ? Googled what is that and was not

satisfied @ all !

I know for sure that in c#, I donot need "this" and the thing still
works
correctly as expected ! Is there a very good reason to use "this"
notation
on every line ?

John


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