New things in C# 6.0

Senthil Kumar B

Microsoft MVP – Windows Platform Development

MobileOSGeek.com

About Me

• Work for Trivium eSolutions , Bangalore

• Microsoft MVP in Windows Platform Development.

• Speaker , Blogger and Software Engineer

• BDotNetter

• Blog about Mobile development at MobileOSGeek.com

• Twitter : @isenthil

C# 1.0 to 5.0

• C# 1.0 – Announced in 2002

• C# 2.0 – 2005

• Generics

• C# 3.0 – 2007

• LINQ and Lambda Expression

• C# 4.0 - 2010

• dynamic

• C# 5.0 - 2012

• Asynchronous programming

C# 6.0 and features

• Auto Property Initializers

• Expression Bodied Function Members

• Static

• Null Conditional Operator

• String Interpolation

• NameOf Expression

• Dictionary Initializers

• Exception filters

• Await in catch and Finally

• and more …

Auto Property Initializer

Read Only Auto properties

Expression bodies on method-like members

Expression bodies on property-like function members

Static class in using clause

Null-conditional operator

String Interpolation

NameOf Expression

Dictionary Initializers

Exception filters

How to try C# 6.0 ?

Download and install Visual Studio 2015 Preview

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2015-downloads-vs

Note : Visual Studio 2015 is currently in preview and install and try it on a VM or system that is available for reformatting later. The preview release is not intended for use on production computers.

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