Anonymous type

<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>
<h3>C#</h3>
var person = new { firstName = "John", lastName = "Smith" };
Console.WriteLine(person.lastName);

<p>Output: Smith
</p>
<h3>Go</h3>
var person struct { firstName string; lastName string }
person.firstName = "John"
person.lastName = "Smith"

<h3>OCaml</h3>
let person = object val firstName = "John" val lastName = "Smith" end;;

<h3>Oxygene</h3>
var person := new class(firstName := 'John', lastName := 'Smith');

<h3>PHP</h3>
$person = new class
{
    public $firstName = "John";
    public $lastName = "Smith";
};

<h3>Scala</h3>
val person = new { val firstName = "John"; val lastName = "Smith" }

<h3>Visual Basic .NET</h3>
Dim person = New With {.firstName = "John", .lastName = "Smith"}

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Extension_method/fkvzp3Nx">Extension method</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Anonymous_function/2vdyE4zL">Anonymous function</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Expression_tree/HqbKYU43">Expression tree</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://spellcoder.com/blogs/bashmohandes/archive/2006/12/08/4027.aspx">C# 3.0 Language Enhancements Presentation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.studyvb.com/">Anonymous Types in Visual Basic 2008</a> - Learn about the new features in Visual Basic 2008.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1"><p>"Anonymous Types (C# Programming Guide)". Microsoft. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-25. <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397696.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397696.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
</ol>

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