Extension Methods
- This is a feature of C# 3.0.
Extension methods are a form of syntactic sugar providing the illusion of adding new methods to the existing class outside its definition. In practice, an extension method is a static method that is callable as if it were an instance method; the receiver of the call is bound to the first parameter of the method, decorated with keyword this:
public static class StringExtensions { public static string Left(this string s, int n) { return s.Substring(0, n); } } string s = "foo"; s.Left(3); // same as StringExtensions.Left(s, 3);See also
- Decorator pattern
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