What's the @ in front of a string in C#?

Question

This is a .NET question for C# (or possibly VB.net), but I am trying to figure out what\'s the difference between the following declarations:

string hello =          


        

Answer 1

Putting a @ in front of a string enables you to use special characters such as a backslash or double-quotes without having to use special codes or escape characters.

So you can write:

string path = @"C:\My path\";

instead of:

string path = "C:\\My path\\";