Alias for static member in C#?

Question

I have a static member:

namespace MyLibrary
{
    public static class MyClass
    {
        public static string MyMember;
    }
}

which I want to access like this:

using MyLibrary;

namespace MyApp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            MyMember = "Some value.";
        }
    }
}

How do make MyMember accessible (without MyClass.) to MyApp just by adding using MyLibrary?

Answer 1

C# doesn't allow you to create aliases of members, only of types. So the only way to do something like that in C# would be to create a new property which is accessible from that scope:

class Program
{
    static string MyMember 
    {
       get { return MyClass.MyMember; }
       set { MyClass.MyMember = value; }
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        MyMember = "Some value.";
    }
}

It's not really an alias, but it accomplishes the syntax you're looking for.

Of course, if you're only accessing / modifying a member on MyClass, and not assigning to it, this can be simplified a bit:

class Program
{
    static List<string> MyList = MyClass.MyList;

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        MyList.Add("Some value.");
    }
}