What's new in C# 6, VB 14? VS 14? Think "Developer Productivity versions"

Kathleen Dollard - Video Series on C# 6.0, Visual Basic 14 and Visual Studio 14

Video Series on C# 6.0, Visual Basic 14 and Visual Studio 14I am really excited to be sharing a series of short videos on C# 6.0, Visual Basic 14 and Visual Studio 14. The series will be free and available at www.WintellectNOW.com

The first video is “The New Compilers” and is an overview of the next releases.

The second video “Simplifying Classes with C# 6.0” shows how to use auto-property initialization, getter-only auto-properties and primary constructors to create classes with simple code and immutable or mutable properties.

Next week I’ll dive deeper into auto-properties and primary constructors in C#.

Visual Basic folks can watch these videos for the basic concepts in this release, and I’ll focus some upcoming videos on Visual Basic 14 features.

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BillWagner  - Overview of C# 6 language enhancements

I was interviewed by Carl and Richard on .NET Rocks a bit ago to discuss the new features in C# 6, the upcoming version of C# that will ship with the next version of Visual Studio (link goes to CTP 3, current as of Aug 2014). You can learn all about the new version of C# at the Roslyn CodePlex site.

The initial buzz about the next version of C# centered around the implications that this compiler was a complete rewrite, written in C# from the ground up. You’ve probably heard quite a bit about how you can use the Roslyn APIs to inspect and modify code models programmatically. That is super cool, and much easier than using the earlier CodeDOM and Reflection.Emit functionality. It’s also an edge case for most of us. I’ve written very little code that uses either CodeDOM or Reflection.Emit. And, while it is also very cool that the C# compiler is now self-hosted (meaning it is written in C#), that will have very minimal affect on you either.

So what is new?

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C#6/VB 14 are shaping up to be "the" developer productivity version. The scary thing? This wheel has just started rolling and we're just starting to see the promise of Roslyn/.NET Compiler Platform. The next couple years are going to be very exciting in the .NET world.