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Enabling c# 7 in a asp.net application

I just started working on my old solution in Visual Studio 2017. Just opening the solution in the old IDE worked seamlessly. The c# application projects now default to the c# 7.0 compiler. The property pages of those project (compilation/advanced) let easily chose the targeted language version of the compiler, defaulting to the latest.

I cannot find a way to enable c# 7.0 in the asp.net web projects though. If I write a statement such as:

if (int.TryParse("1", out int myInt)) { ... }

the IDE warns me saying that I need to use version 7+ of the language.

My research on this topic shows I should target the specific c# version in the system.codedom compilers area of the web.config file, so to target the newest Roslyn version.

What I have now is:

  <system.codedom>
    <compilers>
      <compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs"
        type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
        warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:6 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701"/>

which targets c# 6. What are the correct settings for c# 7, provided that I have already downloaded the latest Roslyn with nuget?

Update Here is a screenshot of the available Compile options for a web project (it is Italian VS2017 but it should be easy to understand). No possibility to select the targeted c# version there.

Compile options

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davidthegrey Avatar asked Mar 12 '17 06:03

davidthegrey


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2 Answers

In website's NuGet window:

  1. Uninstall Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform
  2. Re-install it
  3. In web.config, under: system.codedom > compilers > compiler, change compilerOptions="/langversion:6 to 7
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Hassan Abdullah Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 08:10

Hassan Abdullah


I am able to compile it with default language setting but not with C# 7 option. enter image description here

But below setting gives compile time error:

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so you can keep your language version setting as default.

If you experimenting with Roslyn and not using Visual 2017 default compiler build then you may need to make some more changes

Select your project name and right click >> Properties Window >> Build and then add the below two options in "Conditional Compilation symbols" text box __DEMO__,__DEMO_EXPERIMENTAL__

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Update

In order to use C# 7.0, you need to use 2.0+ version of Microsoft.Net.Compilers

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after installing the latest version of Microsoft.Net.Compilers (2.0+) you can select the language version as C# 7.

so the best solution is to install the latest version of Microsoft.Net.Compilers (2.0+).

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Banketeshvar Narayan Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 08:10

Banketeshvar Narayan