What's the difference between a compound type and an anonymous type?

Question

As the question states above, what's the difference between a compound type and an anonymous type?

In this answer, a compound typed object is defined with a new {} statement (below statement).

m => new { member = m, split = m.Name.Split(',') }

But isn't that the same as when you create an anonymous typed object? Are they both the same thing by different names?

Answer 1

Those are just different names, yes. The code you put above creates an anonymous type (that is the name you should use, the official one, and the common one).