Chapter 8: C# 4.0 Features

This chapter looks at the new features added into C# 4.0 that combine to improve code readability and extend your ability to leverage LINQ to Object queries over dynamic data sources.

Summary

This chapter introduced the new language features of C#4.0 and tried to demonstrate how they can be combined to extend the LINQ to Objects story. The examples provided showed how to improve the coding model around reading data from CSV text file sources and how to combine data from Microsoft Excel using COM-Interop into LINQ to Object queries.

References

1. Ecma International History from the Ecma International website hosted at http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/history.htm.
2. Ecma-334-C# Language Specification from the Ecma International website at http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm.