Anonymous Types in C#

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Hi Friends,

In today’s discussion, we’ll see anonymous types. Well by books, Anonymous types are strongly typed, immutable with a bunch of properties. we basically create the instance of anonymous types by basically providing properties value like shown below.

so, I have created a var person and created an instance the next thing is anonymous
initializer, and this is created a whole new class behind the scenes. In order to inspect the same what you can do is inspect the same in Reflector using Ildasm. It will show you a bunch of scary things out there. but, for this discussion, am keeping the things fairly simple and just focusing on the high level things.
var person= new { FirstName = “Rahul”, LastName = “Sahay” };

now, there are certain catch with the same, If i try to change the order of the same,
person = new { LastName = “scott”,FirstName = “dave” }; // will popup error

i cannot do that because, the 1st one which i created has got the same in reference like below

let me just show you the var indication.

anony1st

 

Now, when i run the same it will print the below output like below:

anony2nd

 

so, having said to my earlier statement anonymous types are strongly typed. you will get fairly good intellisense while writing the code as shown below.

anony3rd

also, one more point when i mentioned that anonymous types are immutable. this can be referred as below like

anony4th

 

so, it’s says that it’s a readonly property cannot be intervened again, once initialized.

now, we have liberty of having embedded anonymous types as well like shown below

anony5th

 

now, when i run the same, it will print the below string inside braces obviously.

anony6th

 

However, this is ok when i have to print one variable like person kind of thing,how about
when i have to take care of bunch of values, so in this case i need to consider Implicitly Typed Arrays like shown below

anony7th

obviously, since i have to loop through the array, so i have changed the printing condition and now, the output would go like this

anony8th

 

So, now with this i would like to wrap this discussion. Till then, stay tuned and Happy Coding.

Thanks,
Rahul
Happy Coding

Thanks, Rahul Happy Coding