Chapter 1. New Features in C# 6.0

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes with regard to the new features of C# 6.0:

  • Creating your Visual Studio project
  • String interpolation
  • Null-conditional operator
  • Initializers for auto-implemented properties and getter-only auto properties
  • Index initializers
  • The nameof expressions
  • Expression-bodied functions and properties
  • Using static
  • Exception filters
  • Using await operator in catch and finally blocks

Introduction

C# as a programming language first appeared in 2000. Its development team is led by the prominent Danish software engineer Anders Hejlsberg. He is the lead architect of C# and core developer of TypeScript. The C# programming language is simple to use, and this book will deal with C# 6.0, which was ...

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