C# Programming Cookbook

Expression-bodied functions and properties

As the name suggests, expression-bodied functions and properties allow methods and properties to have a body that is an expression instead of a statement. You will notice that expression-bodied members look a lot like lambda expressions, because they are inspired by lambda expressions.

Getting ready

To truly appreciate expression-bodied functions and properties, we need to look at the way code had to be written previously. We will create a class to calculate the sale price of an item, and the class will contain two public methods. One will set a shelf price, and the other will return a message displaying the calculated sale price.

How to do it…

1. Create a class called Recipe6ExpressionBodiedFunctionMembers ...