Take advantage of nullable types to assign 'no values' or 'null values' to value types when there is no value available The C# language provides support for two types of data: value types and ...

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Nullable reference types, to improve code quality, according to the .Net Foundation, which oversees the open source .Net that C# is part of. The feature will add safe reference types in addition to ...

Anonymous types are a new feature of Visual Basic 9 (2008). They provide a quick and easy way to define simple classes for holding values. Both VB 9 and C# 3.0 provide support for anonymous types, but ...