How To Enable C# 6.0 / VB 14 In Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio recently introduced C#6, which has many new features like the following:

  

Expression-level features

•    Null-conditional operators
•    Index initializers
•    Extension Add methods
•    nameof expressions
•    String interpolation
•    Overload resolution

Statement-level features

• Exception filters
• Await in catch and finally blocks 

Member declaration features

• Auto-property initializers
• Parameterless constructors in structs
• Getter-only auto-properties
• Expression-bodied function members 

Import features

• using static 

In this article we will learn how to enable C# 6 / VB 14 in Visual Studio.

 

Open your project and go to Tools, NuGet Package Manager, then click Manage NuGet Packages for solution and search for 'Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform'

 

Install this in your project first

 

Or you can Install this by writing PM> Install-Package Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform in your NuGet Package manager Console. 

 

 

 

It will install Microsoft.Net.Compilers 1.0.0 and Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform 1.0.1.

 

 

 

2nd way: Select your project and go to Website tab. Here you just have to click on Enable C# 6 / VB 14,

 

It will also do the same thing, install C#6 / VB 14 NuGet Package in your projects.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Now open class file and check the following new feature: Auto-property initializers.

 

For that create a property as sin the following. Here you can initialize the property at declaration time. 

public string AddressLine1 { get; set; } = "Mumbai";

 

If you haven't installed C#6 Vb 14 then, it will give you an error, since it is a C# 6 feature.

 

 

 

Hope you like this article, In my next article we will learn new Features of C#.