Variant is back but in C#

If you are a veteran Visual Basic programmer, you must know how valuable variant is. Var is the new keyword added to C# 3.0.

var is the keyword to define a variant type variable. Unlike an object type, var is an enumeration and boxing/unboxing operation is not required during the conversion.

This is how you define a var.

Here is a screen from Session notes on new C# 3.0 features.