C# 3 new feature posts (and not about .Net 3.5 features) [closed]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/137688
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There are a lot of new features that came with the .Net Framework 3.5. Most of the posts and info on the subject list stuff about new 3.5 features and C# 3 changes at the same time. But C# 3 can be used without .Net 3.5. Does anyone know of a good post describing the changes to the language? (Besides the boring, explicit official specs at MSDN that is.)
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Update: I can certainly understand. Eric Lippert has some more indepth posts..Check them out.
I liked the series of posts by scottgu on the new language features.. Some more info here as well http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/11/top-10-things-to-know-about-visual.html esp the section on language features.
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There's a "quick and dirty" list on my C# in Depth site (which is also slightly tongue in cheek):
To respond somewhat to Charles Graham's post, I have an article about how applicable the language features are when targeting .NET 2.0:
Just as a blatant plug, if you're interested in language rather than framework, C# in Depth is about as close to a "language only" book as I've seen. It's also divided into two parts (after the introduction): new features in C# 2, and new features in C# 3.
Scott Guthrie has a good series of blog posts that describe a lot of the improvements. Scroll down to "Language Improvements and LINQ".
Lambda Expressions
Anonymous Types
Automatic Properties and object/list initializers
Extension Methods
Query Syntax
Check out Eric White's tutorial on functional programming in C# 3.0
That's one thing that I would concretely like to know myself. The one thing that I can tell you is that a lot of the new features in C# 3.0 will actually work in a purely 2.0 application if you do multi targeting in VS 2008. I know that extension methods are one such thing.
here is a series of articles that helped me understand the new features quickly
http://blah.winsmarts.com/2006/05/19/demystifying-c-30--part-4-lambda-expressions.aspx
