Does C# 7.0 work for .NET 4.5?

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Let’s go through the features new in C# 7.0:

  • Tuples: The System.ValueTuple package has a version for the portable-net40+sl4+win8+wp8 profile. That means it is usable on .Net 4.0. (Not sure why dependencies list only .Net 4.5.)

    If you wanted to use tuples on even lower versions of .Net, it should still work, as long as you add the code for ValueTuple and related types to your project.

  • out variables, pattern matching, local functions, more expression-bodied members, throw expressions, numeric literal syntax improvements: All these features are just syntax sugar, so they don’t need any new capabilities from the framework.

  • ref locals and returns: This feature exposes in C# what the framework supported since the start, so no changes in the framework are needed here either.

  • Generalized async return types: To use this feature, you need a type that has the AsyncMethodBuilder attribute, which is in the System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions package (along with one such type, ValueTask<T>). This package is only supported on .Net 4.5, so for .Net 4.0, you would need to compile the relevant types yourself. (Using await on .Net 4.0 also requires Microsoft.Bcl.Async, but that’s nothing new.)

To sum up: All of C# 7.0 should work on .Net 4.5 after installing the required packages and most of it should work on .Net 4.0 too.

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