Hidden Features of C#? [closed]

Answer 1

Two things I like are Automatic properties so you can collapse your code down even further:

private string _name;
public string Name
{
    get
    {
        return _name;
    }
    set
    {
        _name = value;
    }
}

becomes

public string Name { get; set;}

Also object initializers:

Employee emp = new Employee();
emp.Name = "John Smith";
emp.StartDate = DateTime.Now();

becomes

Employee emp = new Employee {Name="John Smith", StartDate=DateTime.Now()}