What is the purpose of @ as part of a member name in C#?

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Published on 2010-04-16T14:33:34Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 14:43 UTC
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As you can imagine, Googling or Binging for any phrase containing an '@' is difficult.

In creating a new web service, one of the members of the imported C# proxy class is prefixed with the @. For example:

plan.@event = new Insurance.Event();

I assume that it is Visual Studio's way resolving potential conflicts with reserved words because 'event' is a reserved word. Changing the property in the web service interface to something other than 'event' (i.e. 'healthevent') removes the @ from the property. Is this a correct assumption?

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