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Mark J. Price
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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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Pattern matching with objects

In Chapter 3, Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions, you were introduced to basic pattern matching. In this section, we will explore pattern matching in more detail.

Pattern-matching flight passengers

In this example, we will define some classes that represent various types of passengers on a flight, and then we will use a switch expression with pattern matching to determine the cost of their flight:

  1. In the PacktLibraryNetStandard2 project/folder, add a new file named FlightPatterns.cs.
  2. If you use Visual Studio 2022, in FlightPatterns.cs, delete the existing statements, including the class named FlightPatterns, because we will define multiple classes, and none match the name of the code file.
  3. In FlightPatterns.cs, add statements to define three types of passenger with different properties, as shown in the following code:
    // All the classes in this file will be defined in the following namespace...
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Mark J. Price

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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