What is new in C# 6.0

The latest version of C# language, C# 6.0 was just announced. C# 6.0 is also a part of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015. C# 6.0 does not have any major new concepts of features but focuses on cleaner and leaner code.

Some of the key features introduced in C# 6.0 are the following:

• Getter only auto properties
• Initializers for auto properties
• Methods and properties with expression bodies
• Member access that protects against null
• Interpolated strings
• Index initializers
• The nameof operator
• Exception filters in exception handling
• Await in catch and finally

Watch Mads Torgersen, Language PM for C# talks about these new features of C# 6.0.