Introduction
Microsoft Visual C# is a powerful but simple language aimed primarily at developers who create applications built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Visual C# inherits many of the best features of C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic but few of the inconsistencies and anachronisms, which results in a cleaner and more logical language.
C# 1.0 made its public debut in 2001.
C# 2.0, with Visual Studio 2005, provided several important new features, including generics, iterators, and anonymous methods.
C# 3.0, which was released with Visual Studio 2008, added extension methods, lambda expressions, and most famously of all, the Language-Integrated Query facility, or LINQ.
C# 4.0 was released in 2010 and provided further enhancements that improved ...
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