Cool Things to Do with Dynamics in dotNET 4

Put simply, something marked as dynamic does not have any compile-time enforced semantics. Instead, all members of the instance are resolved at runtime by the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). Here is a simple example:

Are Extension Methods a Code Smell

The extension method is a handy feature that came in C# 3.0/VB.NET 9.0 and .NET Framework 3.5. Quite simply, it allows the appearance of extending a class and giving it additional functionality without actually having to modify that class. Here’s an example

An Overview of C# 4.0

In Some Love for VB.NET 10 Too I focused on the new features in VB.NET 10. Now let’s take a look at C# 4.0. C# already has a strong, rich feature set which will, no doubt, be developed even further. I will discuss the actual C# 4.0 specification itself, not the .NET Framework, so the ever-popular “dynamic” keyword will be left for later. It deserves a post of its own.

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