December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1704 pages
43h 12m
English
CHAPTER 16
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Dynamic Types and the Dynamic Language Runtime
NET 4.0 introduced a new keyword to the C# language, specifically, dynamic. This keyword allows you to incorporate scripting-like behaviors into the strongly typed world of type safety, semicolons, and curly brackets. Using this loose typing, you can greatly simplify some complex coding tasks and also gain the ability to interoperate with a number of dynamic languages (such as IronRuby or IronPython), which are .NET savvy.
In this chapter, you will be introduced to the C# dynamic keyword and understand how loosely typed calls are mapped to the correct in-memory object using the Dynamic ...