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While building such a class is not rocket science, it can be rather labor intensive if you are

attempting to encapsulate more than a handful of members (although automatic properties do

help in this regard). As of C# 2008, we are now provided with a massive shortcut for this very situa-

tion termed 

anonymous types, which in many ways is a natural extension of C#’s anonymous

methods syntax (examined in Chapter 11).

When you define an anonymous type, you do so by making use of the new var keyword in con-

junction with the object initialization syntax you have just examined. To illustrate, create a new

Console Application named AnonymousTypes. Now, update Main() with the following anonymous

class, which models a simple car type:

static void Main(string[] args)

{

Console.WriteLine("***** Fun with Anonymous Types *****\n");