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Viliam
Viliam

Reputation: 678

Is there directive for c# language version

Is there any predefined constant to distinguish language versions, such as:

#if C#6
 //code
#else
 //code
#endif

Upvotes: 5

Views: 350

Answers (2)

Vadim
Vadim

Reputation: 106

Depending on your environment you can rely on the platform version or not. If the projects do not use custom explicit language versions, you can try to use the target framework directives.

The compiler determines a default based on these rules: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/configure-language-version#defaults

.NET Framework
NETFRAMEWORK, NET48, NET472, NET471, NET47, NET462, NET461, NET46, NET452, NET451, NET45, NET40, NET35, NET20

.NET Standard
NETSTANDARD, NETSTANDARD2_1, NETSTANDARD2_0, NETSTANDARD1_6, NETSTANDARD1_5, NETSTANDARD1_4, NETSTANDARD1_3, NETSTANDARD1_2, NETSTANDARD1_1, NETSTANDARD1_0

.NET 5+ and .NET Core
NET, NET6_0, NET6_0_ANDROID, NET6_0_IOS, NET6_0_MACOS, NET6_0_MACCATALYST, NET6_0_TVOS, NET6_0_WINDOWS, NET5_0, NETCOREAPP, NETCOREAPP3_1, NETCOREAPP3_0, NETCOREAPP2_2, NETCOREAPP2_1, NETCOREAPP2_0, NETCOREAPP1_1, NETCOREAPP1_0

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38476796/how-to-set-net-core-in-if-statement-for-compilation

So you can use if-else directives with these keywords

#if NET5_0
// GG C# 9
#endif

There are also other directive keywords with the higher or lower keyword

#if NET5_0_OR_GREATER  // up-level version
#else  // down-level version
#endif

This approach is unreliable if you actually need only language version specific features. I recommend to set the latest language version in your csproj.

Upvotes: 1

MarkPflug
MarkPflug

Reputation: 29538

You shouldn't have to do this.

Typically, you would do something like this to support different versions of .NET framework. Not different versions of the C# compiler. Newer compiler can target older versions of the framework. In short, use the latest C# compiler features. The compiler is free, so there isn't any real roadblock to updating a project to use the latest features.

Upvotes: 2

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