What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by chton » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 3:47 PM UTC

What's New in C# 6.0 [video]
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Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by iaskwhy » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

You can also view a summary of the video/features as a presentation: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3a%2f...

Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by architgupta » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 4:59 PM UTC

These are very nice changes. Especially the ability to write a quick lambda for named functions (or functions which are needed often).

The elvis operator is useful to. Makes me think sticking to F# will cause fewer classes of bugs that can happen in C# (the onChanged example is quite interesting).

Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by Griever » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

Seems like a small change but that nameof(argument) method for ArgumentXExceptions is incredibly handy.

Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by IanDrake » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 5:12 PM UTC

iaskwhy wrote: post #2

You can also view a summary of the video/features as a presentation: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3a%2f...

Thanks. Looks pretty awesome!

Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by pilif » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

Being able to use await in catch and finally must have been incredibly hard to implement for them. Especially in the finally part.

I mean - I'm saying this as somebody who hasn't done a lot of C# or .NET work in the last few years, but think about what you would have to do if you had to implement this in a safe and bug-free way.

Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by felixrieseberg » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 5:23 PM UTC

Interestingly, if you'd like to check out how some of these features were implemented, you totally can. Roslyn is open-source (http://roslyn.codeplex.com/).

That being said, I hope that all the open-sourcing is going to make it available where I really want to use it - Unity, for instance. (Disclaimer: I'm an open source dev @ Microsoft)

Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by swalsh » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 5:25 PM UTC

It's funny that of all those, i'm most excited about nameof

Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by hvs » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 5:28 PM UTC

The null-conditional operators and string interpolation are really cool.

I don't use C# anymore (job change, not out of dislike), but I was always really happy working in it. I'm still not a huge fan of Windows, but C# is a wonderful language.

Re: What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

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Post by FlyingLawnmower » Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

await in catch and finally is going to be great! I'm an amateur c# programmer, but I hated having to set flags that get called later to do async methods with try/catch.