C# Conventions [EA User Guide]

Enterprise Architect supports the round trip engineering of C#, where the following conventions are used.

Stereotypes

Stereotype	Applies to	Corresponds To
enumeration	Class	An enum type.
struct	Class	A struct type.
indexer	Operation	A property acting as an index for this class.
event	Operation	An event.
property	Operation	A property possibly containing both read and write code.

Tagged Values

Tag	Applies to	Corresponds To
unsafe	Class, Interface, Operation	The unsafe keyword.
partial	Class, Interface	The partial keyword.
static	Class	The static keyword.
new	Class, Interface, Operation	The new keyword.
genericConstraints	Templated Class or Interface, Operation with tag generic.	The constraints on the generic parameters of this type or operation.
const	Attribute	The const keyword.
delegate	Operation	The delegate keyword.
extern	Operation	The extern keyword.
generic	Operation	The generic parameters for this Operation.
sealed	Operation	The sealed keyword.
override	Operation	The override keyword.
virtual	Operation	The virtual keyword.
Implements	Operation	The name of the method this implements, including the interface name.
ImplementsExplicit	Operation	The presence of the source interface name in this method declaration.
initializer	Operation	A constructor initialization list.
params	Parameter	A parameter list using the params keyword.
attribute_name	Operation with stereotype property or event	The name of the variable behind this property or event.
readonly	Operation with stereotype property	This property only defining read code.
writeonly	Operation with stereotype property	This property only defining write code.

Other Conventions

·	Namespaces are generated for each package below a namespace root

·	The Const property of an attribute corresponds to the readonly keyword, while the tag const corresponds to the const keyword

·	The value of inout for the Kind property of a parameter corresponds to the ref keyword

·	The value of out for the Kind property of a parameter corresponds to the out keyword

·	Partial classes can be modeled as two separate classes with the partial tag

·	The Is Leaf property of a class corresponds to the sealed keyword.