I understand that if I cast it to a named type I can do whatever I want with it, but it’d make for much tidier code if I could keep the anonymity between method calls.
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I understand that if I cast it to a named type I can do whatever I want with it, but it’d make for much tidier code if I could keep the anonymity between method calls.
Think of the signature of your method as a contract. Your method says “I promise to return you something that contains the following fields.” If you return an anonymous object from your method, there’s no contract. You’re just saying “There’s some data here, good luck!”
If C# 4 is at all an option, you can just use tuples to return somewhat more arbitrary data.