The Yield Statement in C#

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The Yield Statement in C#

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rprouse 10 months, 27 days ago

alteridem.net — The yield statement is another often overlooked keyword that was introduced in .NET 2.0. It is used to return items from a loop within a method and retain the state of the method through multiple calls.

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This is a useful article and I honestly didn't know about yield break, but two better articles (in my opinion) are:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/bb264519.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/wesdyer/archive/2007/03/23/all-about-iterators.aspx

posted by senfo 10 months, 26 days ago

If you're interested in how the yield keyword actually works, read this:

http://startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/behind-the-scenes-of-the-c-yield-keyword/

posted by lcorneliussen 1 month, 8 days ago