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Is it bad to use anonymous types in C#?
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Tradeoffs. You might want to always use ValueTuple over Tuple, and anonymous types, but there are tradeoffs you should consider. The ValueTuple types are mutable, whereas Tuple are read-only. Anonymous types can be used in expression trees, while tuples cannot.
Updated on: May 2, 2020. In C#, an anonymous type is a type (class) without any name that can contain public read-only properties only. It cannot contain other members, such as fields, methods, events, etc. You create an anonymous type using the new operator with an object initializer syntax.
The compiler gives them a name although your application cannot access it. From the perspective of the common language runtime, an anonymous type is no different from any other reference type, except that it cannot be cast to any type except for object.
Anonymous types provide a convenient way to encapsulate a set of read-only properties into a single object without having to explicitly define a type first. The type name is generated by the compiler and is not available at the source code level. The type of each property is inferred by the compiler.
No, it is not. They are code generated classes at compiletime and perform as well as normal classes.
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