Programming Tutorials

Which version of C# to use?

By: Ram Baskar  

For a beginner it is always a daunting task to decide on which version to use and which development tool to use. The table here shows clearly the available versions of C# and the corresponding Visual Studio version to use.

Summary of versions

	C# 2.0	C# 3.0	C# 4.0	C# 5.0 (planned)
Features added	Generics Partial types Anonymous methods Iterators Nullable types	Implicitly typed local variables Object and collection initializers Auto-Implemented properties Anonymous types Extension methods Query expressions Lambda expressions Expression trees	Dynamic binding Named and optional arguments Generic co- and contravariance	Asynchronous methods Compiler As a Service
Date	November 2005	November 2007	April 2010
Visual Studio	Visual Studio 2005	Visual Studio 2008	Visual Studio 2010
.NET Framewrork	.NET Framework 2.0	.NET Framework 3.5	.NET Framework 4