C# 6.0 Support in Visual Studio 2012

Question

I have been working at my current company for a little over six months and we're currently using Visual Studio 2012. We are going to start building a new application and I've been trying to get a commitment to a Visual Studio 2015 upgrade so that we can start with the latest technology. Unfortunately it's a small company and there are budgets to consider.

Does anyone know if C# 6.0 will be supported in Visual studio 2012. I'm thinking that, since it's about to become 3rd generation old it may not get support.

UPDATE:

I saw a lot of comments related to the community edition of VS2015 so I thought I would clarify my company's position regarding that version. The company has around 20 employees and a 6 person IT team who all need VS for various reasons. We also have over $1M sales so we can not qualify for community edition.

UPDATE 2:

Q: Is there some specific feature in C# 6.0 you can't live without?

A: Not any particular feature although property initializers and primary constructors will cut down on a lot of chaff in code.

Answer 1

Yes, you can install c# 6.0 into VS2012 and VS2013 on a per project basis as a NuGet package. You'll have to install this package for every project that you want c# 6.0 features in.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Net.Compilers/

Installing Latest C# Compiler via Nuget

Install-Package Microsoft.Net.Compilers

EDIT: As pointed out in the comments below, upgrade your NuGet to the latest version in order to ensure full compatibility with the nuspec file.