Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008

Summary

As you can see, Microsoft's C# team has been busy adding enhancements to C#. All of the C# enhancements discussed in this chapter have been made specifically for LINQ. But even without LINQ, there is a lot to be gained from the new C# features.

The new object and collection initialization expressions are a godsend. Stubbing in static, sample, or test data is much easier than before, significantly reducing the lines of code needed to create the data. This feature combined with the new var keyword and anonymous types makes it much easier to create data and data types on the fly.

Extension methods now make it possible to add functionality to objects, such as sealed classes or perhaps classes for which you don't even have the source code, ...