Re: Can't write '\' - backslash in Visual Studio .NET

From: Sriram Krishnan (ksriram_at_NOSPAMgmx.net)
Date: 09/30/04


Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:35:10 +0530

Do you have any IMEs or alternative keyboard layouts installed? They might
be causing this problem

-- 
Sriram Krishnan
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sriram
"Ask" <asknewsmail@yahoo.se> wrote in message 
news:ba6fcddd.0409292349.5f293608@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> It's a good suggestion if I could write the "\" :)
>
> If I try this it would end up with this (where the Y will have
> two '-' over it):
> string str = @"c:Yabc"
> The editor don't let me write the "\"....
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
> Adrian Mascarenhas <Adrian Mascarenhas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
> message news:<8E7B5D3D-811B-40B9-8D5A-1DBF75AA4A93@microsoft.com>...
>> You can use the @ operator.
>> eg. string str = @"c:\abc"
>>
>> -Adrian
>> Developer Div
>> Microsoft
>>
>>
>>
>> "Ask" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm currently having strange problems in Visual Studio .NET.
>> > No matter what language I'm writing my programs in, I still
>> > can't write the sign "\" - backslash. All I get is a "Y" with
>> > two "-" over it.
>> > If I cut and paste this character into Notepad I get the backslash!
>> > This creates a lot of problems when I try to open files at c:\. etc.
>> >
>> > Any idéas?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Martin
>> > 


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