Yesterday we looked at the new var keyword in CSharp.  This makes CSharp variable declaration similar to VB.  After all, they’ve had the DIM keyword for years which essentially does the same thing.

Today, we’re going to look at object initializers, which have been added to both CSharp and VB.

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There have been several new features added to the CSharp language that will significantly reduce the amount of code that ends up in our source files.  It will not significantly reduce the amount of code that we have to write. One of those language features is the ability to create properties, which we looked at last week. Another of those features is the new var keyword. So, instead of writing:

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It’s such a little thing.  But, how much of our CSharp code looks something like this:

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private string _propertyName;

public string PropertyName
{
    get { return _propertyName; }
    set { _propertyName = value; }
}

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I saw this question and immediately thought, “You can’t!  An Enum is an Integer that has been restricted to the values it can accept.”

And I was basically right.  But, I forgot that even with an integer you can do the following in CSharp:

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I just saw a question about this yesterday and realized that while I know how to do this, not everyone does.  So, here we go…

Here’s the problem.  You want to be able to edit all the rows in the gridview at once instead of having to switch to edit mode and save one row at the time.  Normally, you’d want to do this when only a couple of items need to be changed per row and not the entire row’s worth of data.

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