C# 4.0 Unleashed

Lambda Expressions

With the advent of LINQ in C# 3.0 the use of functions as arguments to higher-order query operator functions was to become a day-to-day activity for developers, having to write query expressions like the following:

You will agree that the preceding code is still quite overloaded with syntactical noise that comes from the use of anonymous function expressions: delegates, returns, curly braces.

Note

Simplified query expression syntax exists in C# 3.0, reducing the need to deal with the query operator functions directly. However, ...