Pro C# 9 with .NET 5: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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A. Troelsen, P. JapiksePro C# 9 with .NET 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6939-8_18

18. Dynamic Types and the Dynamic Language Runtime

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phillip Japikse²

(1)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

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 that are .NET Core savvy.

In this chapter, you will be introduced to ...