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

Introduction

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.
• name of 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 a 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 the 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.

Auto-property initializers

For that, create a property as in 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#.