Destructuring assignment - object properties to variables in C#

Question

JavaScript has a nifty feature where you can assign several variables from properties in an object using one concise line. It's called destructuring assignment syntax which was added in ES6.

// New object
var o = {p1:'foo', p2:'bar', p3: 'baz'};
// Destructure
var {p1, p2} = o;
// Use the variables...
console.log(p1.toUpperCase()); // FOO
console.log(p2.toUpperCase()); // BAR

I want to do something similar with C#.

// New anonymous object
var o = new {p1="foo", p2="bar", p3="baz"};
// Destructure (wrong syntax as of C#6)
var {p1, p2} = o;
// Use the variables...
Console.WriteLine(p1.ToUpper()); // FOO
Console.WriteLine(p2.ToUpper()); // BAR

Is there a syntax to do this in C#?

Answer 1

Closest thing which could help you are Tuples.

C#7 maybe will have something like this:

public (int sum, int count) Tally(IEnumerable<int> values) 
{
    var res = (sum: 0, count: 0); // infer tuple type from names and values
    foreach (var value in values) { res.sum += value; res.count++; }
    return res;
}


(var sum, var count) = Tally(myValues); // deconstruct result
Console.WriteLine($"Sum: {sum}, count: {count}"); 

Link to discussion

Right now it is not possible.

Answer 2

C#6 has a lot new cool syntactic features, but unfortunately does not support deconstruction described in your question - https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/wiki/New-Language-Features-in-C%23-6