10 New features of C# 6.0 that you should know

C# 6.0 introduced many small and useful features that helps developers to write clean code. Couple of weeks back I delivered a session on “A lap around C# 6.0 and Visual Studio 2015 Preview”, where I talked about few new features of C# 6.0 and demonstrate how they works. I have also published multiple posts about C# 6.0 at .NET Tips site.

If you haven’t checked them out, or if you are new to C# 6.0 and wanted to know what are the new features introduced, here you go..

New way to initialize Dictionary

• Initialization of Dictionary – Dictionary initializer in C# 6.0

Two new Operators

• Null – Conditional Operators in C# 6.0
• Using nameof Operator in C# 6.0

Handle Exception in a better way

• Conditional Exception Handling – Exception Filters in C# 6.0
• Using await in a catch or finally block – in C# 6.0

Less Code Same Result

• Expression – Bodied Methods in C# 6.0
• Simplify Static Member Access – Using Statement With Static Classes in C# 6.0

No more error during string formatting

• Easily format strings – String interpolation in C# 6.0

Easy and Clean Property Initialization

• Initialize Auto-Property in C# 6.0
• Getter Only Auto-Property in C# 6.0

 

Hope this will give you good idea on the new features of C# 6.0

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