Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition

5. Dynamic Programming in C#

There are advantages to both static typing and dynamic typing. Dynamic typing can enable quicker development times and easier interoperability with dissimilar systems. Static typing enables the compiler to find classes of errors. Because the compiler can make those checks, runtime checks can be streamlined, which results in better performance. C# is a statically typed language and will remain one. However, for those times when dynamic languages provide more efficient solutions, C# now contains dynamic features. Those features enable you to switch between static typing and dynamic typing when the needs arise. The wealth of features that you have in static typing means that most of your C# code will be statically typed. ...