The first new feature that is very important for LINQ is the new data type, var. This is a new keyword that can be used to declare a variable and this variable can be initialized to any valid C# data.
In the C# 3.0 specification such variables are called implicitly-typed local variables.
A var variable must be initialized when it is declared. The compile-time type of the initializer expression must not be of null type but the runtime expression can be null. Once it is initialized its data type is fixed to the type of the initial data.
The following statements are valid uses of the var keyword:
// valid var statements
var x = "1";
var n = 0;
string s = "string";
var s2 = s;
s2 = null;
string s3 = null;
var s4 = s3;At compile time, the above var statements are compiled to IL, like this:
string x = "1";
int n = 0;
string s2 = s;
string...