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Learn C# in 7 days

You're reading from   Learn C# in 7 days Get up and running with C# 7 with async main, tuples, pattern matching, LINQ, regex, indexers, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287044
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Day 01 - Overview of the .NET Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Day 02 - Getting Started with C# 3. Day 03 - What's New in C# 4. Day 04 - Discussing C# Class Members 5. Day 05 - Overview of Reflection and Collections 6. Day 06 - Deep Dive with Advanced Concepts 7. Day 07 - Understanding Object-Oriented Programming with C# 8. Day 08 - Test Your Skills – Build a Real-World Application

Literal improvements

When it comes to literals, we can think about the declaration of various variables constant, which are sometimes the life of a method as these would be very important for a method or to take any decision. And it leads to wrong decisions with the misreading of a numeric constant. To overcome this confusion, C# 7.0 introduced two new features, binary literals and digit separators.

Binary literals

Binary digits are very important for performing complex operations. A constant of a binary digit can be declared as 0b<binaryvalue>, where 0b tells us that this is a binary literal and binary values is the value of your decimal digit. Here are a few examples:

//Binary literals
public const int Nineteen = 0b00010011...
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