Well, I feel like I have totally missed the boat on something.

I love using string.Format() in order to construct messages and other things that need to be written to the console, etc.  For example:

    string msg = string.Format("I can't believe it's {0} already!", DateTime.Now.Date.ToShortDateString());
  Console.WriteLine(msg);

Anyway.  I just learned that the line above can be written as:

    Console.WriteLine("I can't believe it's {0} already!", DateTime.Now.Date.ToShortDateString());

Seems as if the compiler can determine that you're formatting a string and will infer the string.Format() function.

Too bad it can't infer the following:

    string msg = "I can't believe it's {0} already!", DateTime.Now.Date.ToShortDateString();