ICodeGenerator.ValidateIdentifier(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.CodeDom.Compiler

Assembly:

System.CodeDom.dll

Source:

ICodeGenerator.cs

Throws an exception if the specified value is not a valid identifier.

public:
 void ValidateIdentifier(System::String ^ value);

public void ValidateIdentifier (string value);

abstract member ValidateIdentifier : string -> unit

Public Sub ValidateIdentifier (value As String)

Parameters

value

String

The identifier to validate.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

The identifier is not valid.

Remarks

Rather than returning a value, this method throws an exception if the specified identifier is not valid according to the method implementation. Typically, the exception is an ArgumentException. This method enables a code generator that implements this method to produce an informative error message based upon the value of an invalid identifier.