intro.md

C# 7 and 8 Features

Jonathan Turner

• jonathan.m.turner@gmail.com
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-m-turner/
• Emmersion
• Utah Software Craftsmanship meetup
  • http://utahsc.org
• Presentation at https://github.com/theparticleman/csharpfeatures

Microsoft has moved from a few big features in each new version of C# (e.g. generics, LINQ, sync/await) to more small features. C# 7, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 are examples of that.

C# 8 is a bigger release than the individual 7.x releases, but it's still smaller than many releases in the past.

A couple useful links

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-8
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-7-3
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-7-2
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-7-1
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-7
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-version-history

C# 7 is supported in Visual Studio 2017+ and .NET Core 1.0+

C# 7.1 is supported in Visual Studio 2017 15.3+ and .NET Core 2.0+

C# 7.2 is supported in Visual Studio 2017 15.5+ and .NET Core 2.0+ (SDK 2.1.2+)

C# 7.3 is supported in Visual Studio 2017 15.7+ and .NET Core 2.1+ (SDK 2.1.300 RC1+)

C# 8 is supported in .NET Core 3.x and .NET Standard 2.1

C# 8 is not (officially) supported in any version of .NET Framework