February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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3.6. Dynamic Enhancements
The new dynamic functionality in .NET 4.0 allows us to work with types not known at compile time in an intuitive and easy-to-read way. The dynamic changes allow you to do the following:
Write more readable code with fewer casting operations.
Create new languages to utilize the .NET Framework, such as IronPython and IronRuby. Additionally, .NET's dynamic architecture allows these languages to automatically benefit from future framework advances.
Utilize other dynamic languages and their libraries from C# and VB.NET.
Introduce customization/scripting and debugging/querying functionality within your applications.
Work with COM objects more easily. Microsoft Office COM is going to be around for some time whether you like it ...