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C# 6.0 New Features - Expression-Bodied Methods

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It’s a shorthand for writing methods. The body now can be written just like a Lambda expression as shown in Log2 method below:

public string Log(string timestamp, string application, string error, string status)
{
    return string.Format("[Timestamp: \{timestamp}], Application: [\{application}], Error: [\{error}], Status [\{status}]");
}

public string Log2(string timestamp, string application, string error, string status) => string.Format("[Timestamp: \{timestamp}], Application: [\{application}], Error: [\{error}], Status [\{status}]");

It may come in handy for helper methods. The only benefit I can see is getting rid of opening and closing curly braces which generally don’t bother me much. But I know lots of people trying to avoid curly braces as much as possible. I’m sure this feature will be popular among them.