Explore various C# 12 refactoring scenarios for a variety of target types using collection expressions and collection initializers.

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Learn how to refactor your C# code using collection expressions, a simple and consistent syntax for initializing collections. Collection expressions provide a readable and maintainable way to initialize collections of various types, including arrays and lists. They offer advantages such as consistent initialization syntax, efficient code generation, and support for interfaces and empty collections. Explore different scenarios where collection expressions can be used and understand the semantic considerations when using this new syntax.

Refactor your code with C# collection expressions

<p>It’s nice that they are consistently adding features purely for readability. And the empty initialization seems to be a nod towards javascript, which if using both on a project is really nice to use similar syntax for initiating empty collections.</p>
