Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Getting to know about deconstruction syntax

Deconstruction is a syntax to split a value into multiple parts and store those parts individually into new variables. For example, tuples that return multiple values. Let us take the following method as an example, which returns a tuple of two string variables, Title and Author (see the New changes to tuples section):

    public (string Title, string Author) GetBookDetails() 
    { 
       return (Title: "Mastering Visual Studio 2017",               Author: "Kunal Chowdhury"); 
    } 

Now, when you call the method GetBookDetails(), it will return a tuple. You can access its elements by calling the element name, as follows:

 var bookDetails = GetBookDetails(); // returns Tuple Console.WriteLine("Title : " + bookDetails.Title); Console.WriteLine("Author ...