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Chris Schiffhauer
Chris Schiffhauer

Reputation: 17290

C# 6.0 Features Not Working with Visual Studio 2015

I am testing Visual Studio 2015 with C# 6.0 but the language features are not working. In an MVC web application, the following code does compile:

if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Model.Profile?.TypeName))
{
    // More logic here...
}

However, when I run the application via Debug and IIS Express, I get the following error:

CS1525: Invalid expression term '.'

How do I enable these features?

Upvotes: 139

Views: 49020

Answers (7)

JEuvin
JEuvin

Reputation: 1039

<compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:7 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701" />
<compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:15 /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\&quot;Web\&quot; /optionInfer+" />

Upvotes: -1

Michal Šuvada
Michal Šuvada

Reputation: 170

Visual Studio 2015 will also show an Enable C#6 / VB 14 in the Project menu with an ASP.NET web site / web application selected.

This will de facto install Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform and Microsoft.Net.Compilers packages into your project and add appropriate tags into web.config file.

visual studio 2015 - enable cs6 snipp

Upvotes: 6

Tom K
Tom K

Reputation: 161

I was having this same problem in Visual Studio 2015. Another answer here alluded to the solution I used, but they incorrectly specified the fix and never gave clarification.

On the the Visual Studio menu, select Project and you should see the sub-item Enable C#6 / VB 14 if you are having this problem. Select this menu sub-item. It will download the correct packages from Nuget and install them. After this, restart Visual Studio and reload your solution.

I cannot verify if this will also fix the Project Properties > Build > Advanced > Language Version selection to C# 6, so you might want to check this as well after enabling C# 6 from the menu.

Upvotes: 16

Sergey Kljopov
Sergey Kljopov

Reputation: 319

Well, I have MVC5 and recently installed VS 2015.

I've installed CodeDOM providers package, but it didn't help... But after that I realized, that package supports framework 4.5 only, while I have target framework set to 4.6 during tests - it works with 4.5 though...

So pay attention also to target framework. If you have 4.5 - just install package Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform. But if you have 4.5.1-4.6 as a target, you will have to change in web.config section

  <system.codedom>
    <compilers>
      <compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" type="Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:6 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701">
          <providerOption name="CompilerVersion" value="v4.0"/>
      </compiler>
      <compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:14 /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\&quot;Web\&quot; /optionInfer+"/>
    </compilers>
  </system.codedom>

For C#, just change type to:

type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"

Upvotes: 17

Serj Sagan
Serj Sagan

Reputation: 30208

Including following the advice of installing the latest Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform I also had to set my root Web.config system.codedom to this to finally get all of the errors in Visual Studio 2015 to go away:

  <system.codedom>
    <compilers>
      <compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs"
        type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
        warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:6 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701"/>
      <compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb"
        type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
        warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:14 /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\&quot;Web\&quot; /optionInfer+"/>
    </compilers>
  </system.codedom>

Now restart Visual Studio and that should do it.

Upvotes: 12

jbtule
jbtule

Reputation: 31799

This works in MVC 5 (tested 5.2.3), you just need to add the roslyn code dom Nuget package

CodeDOM Providers for .NET Compiler...

Replacement CodeDOM providers that use the new .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") compiler as a service APIs. This provides support for new language features in systems using CodeDOM (e.g. ASP.NET runtime compilation) as well as improving the compilation performance of these systems.

PM> Install-Package Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform/

Upvotes: 215

Bart Calixto
Bart Calixto

Reputation: 19705

Check your project properties, go to build, advanced and see if C# 6.0 if you don't have it as default.

Currently there's perfect support for MVC5 and C# 6.0 and works amazingly well!

Upvotes: 15

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