C# in Depth

Cutting fluffwith a smart compilerThis chapter covers■■■■■Automatically implemented propertiesImplicitly typed local variablesObject and collection initializersImplicitly typed arraysAnonymous typesWe start looking at C# 3 in the same way that we finished looking at C# 2—with acollection of relatively simple features. These are just the first small steps on thepath to LINQ, however. Each of them can be used outside that context, but they’reall pretty important for simplifying code to the extent that LINQ requires in orderto be effective.One important point to note is that while two of the biggest features of C# 2—generics and nullable types—required CLR changes, there are no significantchanges to the CLR that ships with .NET 3.5. There are some bug fixes, but nothingfundamental. The framework library has grown to support LINQ, along with introducinga few more features to the base class library, but that’s a different matter. It’s207Licensed to Rhona Hadida