Based on few very simple examples, I will describe in this post some new features of .NET 3.5, which are fundamentals of the LINQ and everything beyond.
Imagine you have a class Customer with two fields:
public class Customer
{
private string m_Name; public string Name
{
get { return m_Name; }
set { m_Name = value; }
} private string m_Address; public string Address
{
get { return m_Address; }
set { m_Address = value; }
}
} |
Now, if it is required to initializes the instance of this class, you would have to create the instance and then set all required properties.
To avoid this procedure, the constructor has to be defined which initializes all required field: For example:
namespace Daenet
{
class Customer
{
Customer (string address, string name)
{
// Field initialization
}
}
} |
Personally, I hate this, because it just takes too much time to type the code which is not well intellectual one. The good news is type initializers feature, which
does this job for you. Following example illustrates this feature:
namespace Daenet
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Customer c1 =
new Customer { Name = "Damir Dobric", Address = "Derventa" };
Customer c2 =
new Customer { Name = "Stefan Aevermann", Address = "Maintal" };
Customer c3 =
new Customer { Name = "Detlef Horn", Address = "Pforzheim" };
}
}
} |
One more useful thing is that Visual Studio ORCAS provides a full intellisense support for this feature.
Posted
May 28 2007, 11:30 PM
by
Damir Dobric