Anonymous Types
Anonymous types is a new feature of C# 3.0. It allows developers to creat local objects without the need to have a real signature of a class. This is helpful sometimes, when you have methods that take as input a large number of input parameters. What you can do is simply create a new anonymous type and use it through out the local body of the method. This way, you will be dealing with a strongly type class containing all input parameters instead of dealing with seperate fields.
1.
Anonymous types allows grouping data into a class that is created
automatically at compile-time.
2.
var x= new {a=1, b=2, c="Bilal"};
The above statement is compiled and the following is created:
class __Anonymous1
{
private int _a= 3;
private int _b= 5;
private int _c= "some text";
public int a { get{ return _a; } set{ _a = value;} };
public int b { get{ return _b; } set{ _b = value;} };
public int c { get{ return _c; } set{ _c = value;} };
}
3.
When we define a subset of a class as an anonymous type,
we declare the anonymous type without the need to specify
properties names, this is called Projection Initializer.
Hope this helps,
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