New language features in C# 6 with examples

1. Zahid Mian
Part of the Brown-bag Series

2.  Roslyn … in many ways a game-changer
 Devs can now write compiler level “add-ins”
 Enforce Rules and/or Coding Standards
 Roslyn Analyzer (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/magazine/Dn879356.aspx)
 https://github.com/DustinCampbell/CSharpEssentials
 https://github.com/Wintellect/Wintellect.Analyzers
 New Features “suck” if you get paid by the
lines of code

3.  Be careful not to
“abuse” this feature
 Output

5.  When a function or
property returns a
value
 Use lambda operator
to return value
 Reduces “cluttered”
code

6. No Need to match up arguments; simply put the expression in curly braces
Support for IntelliSense

9. Syntactic sugar

12.  Collection of Roslyn tools
 https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a4445ad0-f97c-41f9-a148-eae225dcc8a5
 Recommends new features for you
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New Way