Evaluation history of C#

Evaluation history of C#

C# pronounced as “See Sharp”. It is object oriented programming language developed by Microsoft, which runs under .NET platform. Its syntax is similar to C++ or Java. Its most recent version C# 5.0 was released on August 15, 2012. It is widely used for developing web application, windows application, smart phone apps and games etc.

EVOLUTION HISTORY OF C#

C# 1.0

1. Managed Code
2. IDE - Visual Studio 2002, 2003
3. .NET Framework - 1.0, 1.1

C# 2.0

1. Generics
2. Static Classes
3. Partial types
4. Anonymous methods
5. Iterators
6. Nullable types
7. Asymmetric Property and Indexer Accessors
8. Delegate Inference
9. Covariance and Contra-variance
10. IDE - Visual Studio 2005
11. .NET Framework - 2.0

C# 3.0

1. Implicit types (var)
2. Partial Methods
3. Object and collection initializers
4. Auto-Implemented properties
5. Anonymous types
6. Extension methods
7. LINQ
8. Query expressions
9. Lambda expressions
10. Expression trees
11. IDE - Visual Studio 2008
12. .NET Framework - 3.5

C# 4.0

1. Dynamic binding
2. Named arguments
3. Optional Parameters
4. Generic Covariance and Contra-variance
5. COM Interop
6. IDE -Visual Studio 2010
7. .NET Framework - 4.0

C# 5.0

1. Asynchronous methods
2. Caller info attributes
3. IDE - Visual Studio 2012, 2013
4. .NET Framework - 4.5, 4.5.1