Chapter 4. C# 4: Improving interoperability
This chapter covers
- Using dynamic typing for interoperability and simpler reflection
- Providing default values for parameters so the caller doesn’t need to specify them
- Specifying names for arguments to make calls clearer
- Coding against COM libraries in a more streamlined fashion
- Converting between generic types with generic variance
C# 4 was an interesting release. The most dramatic change was the introduction of dynamic typing with the dynamic type. This feature makes C# statically typed (for most code) and dynamically typed (when using dynamic) in the same language. That’s rare within programming languages.
Dynamic typing was introduced for interoperability, but that’s turned ...
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