C# 3.0 ("C# Orcas") introduces several language extensions that includes:
- Implicitly typed local variables, which permit the type of local variables to be inferred from the expressions used to initialize them.
- Extension methods, which make it possible to extend existing types and constructed types with additional methods.
- Lambda expressions, an evolution of anonymous methods that provides improved type inference and conversions to both delegate types and expression trees.
- Object initializers, which ease construction and initialization of objects.
- Anonymous types, which are tuple types automatically inferred and created from object initializers.
- Implicitly typed arrays, a form of array creation and initialization that infers the element type of the array from an array initializer.
- Query expressions, which provide a language integrated syntax for queries that is similar to relational and hierarchical query languages such as SQL and XQuery.
- Expression trees, which permit lambda expressions to be represented as data (expression trees) instead of as code (delegates).
- Automatically Implemented Properties
