Re: C# 3.0 partial methods and automatic properties

Can't answer the first one, but the second one is an easy answer: usability.


The refactorings in VS2005 have helped rid a lot of the tedious code quite a
bit, but wouldn't it be great if I didn't have to go through the unnecessary
steps of activating the refactoring.

I think a similar point can be made on anonymous methods. They're really not
that special (after all, you can create a class, write the method, etc), but
they can be so much more usable in certain scenarios.

The same is true for ParameterizedThreadStart. Why bother with that, all you
need to do is create a little private class that holds your state and
contains your thread process method. The ParameterizedThreadStart just made
a little pain point that much more usable.

Adam..

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From: Discussion relating to the specifics of the C# and Managed C++
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Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 12:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DOTNET-CX] C# 3.0 partial methods and automatic properties

Having visited a few talks by Anders Heljsberg this week on the TechEd
Developers 2006 EMEA, I learned about two new C# 3.0 features I wasn't
really aware of previously. The first one is that of partial methods.
Unfortunately, I missed the whiteboard discussion where AH seems to
have defined what these actually are - can anybody on this list shed
some light on this new feature? Is it finally possible to implement
the same method in different parts of a partial class, having these
implementations being merged into one? Or is it something different?

The other thing is automatic property generation - shortcut property
declarations, for which the compiler automatically generates a private
field as well as getter/setter methods. Anders Hejlsberg said that
this feature is actually the one they were asked for the most - why's
that? After all, an auto-generated property behaves pretty much the
same as a public field, with the only advantage being that you can
choose to make it more complex at a later time without having to
recompile client code. Is that really so important? Am I missing
something?

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