C# in Depth

Summary229typed local variables—are somewhat different. Likewise, most of the features wouldhave been useful individually in C# 2, whereas implicitly typed arrays and anonymoustypes only pay back the cost of learning about them when the rest of the C# 3 featuresare brought into play.So what do these features really have in common? They all relieve the developer oftedious coding. I’m sure you don’t enjoy writing trivial properties any more than I do, orsetting several properties, one at a time, using a local variable—particularly whenyou’re trying to build up a collection of similar objects. Not only do the new featuresof C# 3 make it easier to write the code, they also make it easier to read it too, at leastwhen they’re applied sensibly.In our next chapter we’ll look at a major new language feature, along with a frameworkfeature it provides direct support for. If you thought anonymous methods madecreating delegates easy, just wait until you see lambda expressions…Licensed to Rhona Hadida