C# in Depth, Fourth Edition

Chapter 10. A smörgåsbord of features for concise code

This chapter covers

• Avoiding code clutter when referring to static members
• Being more selective in importing extension methods
• Using extension methods in collection initializers
• Using indexers in object initializers
• Writing far fewer explicit null checks
• Catching only exceptions you’re really interested in

This chapter is a grab bag of features. No particular theme runs through it besides expressing your code’s intention in ever leaner ways. The features in this chapter are the ones left over when all the obvious ways of grouping features have been used. That doesn’t in any way undermine their usefulness, however.

10.1. Using static directives

The first feature we’ll ...