My attempt @ blogging: C# Versions and features

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

These are the known versions of C#

Visual Studio 2013: No new C# and VB Language Features in VS 2013. But it has new versions of .NET Framework and ASP.NET i.e. .NET Framework 4.5.1 and ASP.NET 4.5.1. Click here to see what is new in VS 2013
C# 5.0 released with .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 (August 2012). Major features: Asynchronous Programming with async and await, caller info attributes.
C# 4.0 released with .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 (April 2010). Major new features: late binding (dynamic), delegate and interface generic variance, more COM support, named arguments and optional parameters
C# 3.0 released with .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (November 2007). Major new features: LINQ (Language Integrated Query), lambda expressions, extension methods, expression trees, anonymous types, implicit typing (var), One-step object creation and initialization, One-step collection creation and initialization, Type Inference, Automatic properties, Func and Action generic delegates
C# 2.0 released with .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (November 2005). Major new features: generics, anonymous methods, nullable types, iterator blocks
C# 1.2 released with .NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003 (April 2003).
C# 1.0 released with .NET Framework 1.0 and Visual Studio 2002 (January 2002)