code from the beginning, your flexibility would have been severely limited. I hope now you can
appreciate the true power of expression trees in C# 3.0.
Useful Applications of Lambda Expressions
Now that I have shown you what lambda expressions look like, let’s consider some of the things you
can do with them. You can actually implement most of the following examples in C# 2.0 using
anonymous methods or delegates. However, it’s amazing how a simple syntactic addition to the lan-
guage can clear the fog and open up the possibilities of expressiveness.
Iterators and Generators Revisited
I’ve described how you can create custom iterators with C# in a couple ...
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