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Functional C#

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Functional C#

Overview of this book

Functional programming makes your application faster, improves performance, and increases your productivity. C# code is written at a higher level of abstraction, so that code will be closer to business requirements, abstracting away many low-level implementation details. This book bridges the language gap for C# developers by showing you how to create and consume functional constructs in C#. We also bridge the domain gap by showing how functional constructs can be applied in business scenarios. We’ll take you through lambda expressions and extension methods, and help you develop a deep understanding of the concepts and practices of LINQ and recursion in C#. By the end of the book, you will be able to write code using the best approach and will be able to perform unit testing in functional programming, changing how you write your applications and revolutionizing your projects.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Functional C#
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 4. Extending Object Functionality with Extension Methods

As we have already mentioned in the previous chapter, we are going to discuss extension methods in greater detail in this chapter. It will be helpful when we talk about LINQ, the essential technique of functional programming in C#, in the next chapter. The following are the topics we will cover in this chapter:

  • Practicing the use of extension methods and getting this new method in IntelliSense

  • Invoking extension methods from other assemblies

  • Creating new methods for an interface, collection, enumeration, and other objects

  • The advantages of extension methods in relation to functional programming

  • The limitations of extension methods