Orcas – First try

 After reading a post by Scott Guthrie on the new C# Orcas language features I decided to download Orcas and try them out.  (**excited**)

The new features I practiced with and love are:

1. Object initializers
   Example:
   Prior to Orcas:
   

   Person person = new Person();
   person.FirstName = “Scott”;
   person.LastName = “Guthrie”;
   person.Age = 32;

   
   Orcas:
   

   Person person = new Person { FirstName=“Scott”, LastName=“Guthrie”, Age=32 };

   I personally like this because I like to have a constructor initializer for all my objects.  That is no longer necessary. =)

2. Collection initilizers
   Orcas:
   

   List<Person> people = new List<Person>();

   people.Add( new Person { FirstName = “Scott”, LastName = “Guthrie”, Age = 32 } );
   people.Add( new Person { FirstName = “Bill”, LastName = “Gates”, Age = 50 } );
   people.Add( new Person { FirstName = “Susanne”, LastName = “Guthrie”, Age = 32 } );

   The new feature I played with that I’m still not to sure about is:

3. Automatic Properties
   Example:
   Prior to Orcas:

   public class Person {

   private string _firstName;
   private string _lastName;
   private int _age;

   public string FirstName {

   get {
   return _firstName;
   }
   set {
   _firstName = value;
   }
   }

   public string LastName {

   get {
   return _lastName;
   }
   set {
   _lastName = value;
   }
   }

   public int Age {

   get {
   return _age;
   }
   set {
   _age = value;
   }
   }
   }

   Orcas:

   public class Person {
   public string FirstName { get; set; }
   public string LastName { get; set; }
   public int Age { get; set; }
   }

Guthrie’s post has links to Bart deSmart’s blog where he shows what happens under the covers for each of these features.

More to come.

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