Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition

Lambda Expressions as Methods (C# Only)

Methods, properties, and other bits of code can now be assigned using lambda expression syntax (in C# only). (See “Write Simple Unnamed Functions Within Your Code (Lambda Expressions)” later in this chapter.) This makes writing and reading code much easier. The following shows a full method implementation as a lambda and a single expression. Notice that we use the string interpolation discussed in the prior section.

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public override string ToString() => $"Name: {this.Name}, Id: {this.EmpId}";