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I like the ValueTuple struct facility, and am enjoying exploring the other features the way a one-eyed cat looks in a seafood store :
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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You think you have it rough, try using C# 7 while your projects target .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0 ...
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Mario Z wrote: You think you have it rough, try using C# 7 while your projects target .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0 ...
Ugh. 
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I am still using the version of C# that is installed with Visual Studio 2015/SP3 for my military simulation development.
For all intents and purposes, whether it is for business, game development, serious simulations, or scientifics, and internals, there is nothing really critically important in any of the new C# versions coming out. Most new features are either different ways of doing the same things that were being done previously or some fine-tuned optimizations, few of which will be really noticeable.
That being said, if a new version of C# is released with a feature that is sorely needed for a specific requirement than an upgrade should be considered.
Other than that, upgrading simply allows the developer to say he or she is using the latest version...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Steve Naidamast wrote: here is nothing really critically important in any of the new C# versions coming out.
Well, I'm noticing some open source projects that specifically target C# 7, like MoreLinq, though I suppose NuGet would resolve that, but I like to be able to build the latest OS code.
Steve Naidamast wrote: or my military simulation development
Then again, the military probably frowns on using open source packages?
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Marc:
The new projects you mention that are targeting a specific C# platform are actually targeting that version of the .NET Framework that has that level of C#, since they are one and the same.
As a result, you would have to install that version of the .NET Framework for the version of C# you are looking for...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Steve Naidamast wrote: As a result, you would have to install that version of the .NET Framework for the version of C# you are looking for...
Yes, that thought occurred to me as I was driving to the grocery store. 
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HOWEVER, if you have Visual Studio installed, BE VERY CAREFUL how you upgrade the .NET Framework. You must use an update specific for the Visual Studio version you are using or you could have serious issues with the IDE.
I learned this the hard way...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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What about security?
Where I am working, we absolutely need to keep up with the latest versions of the .NET runtime and JVM because of security issues in older versions (yes, and patch the newer versions).
I am currently working with VS 2015 update 3 but will move to 2017 as the software engineering organization moves to it.
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Member 11354034 wrote: What about security?
The IT department hasn't a clue. Oh sure, things are "secured" all over the place, requiring hoops to get access to a particular database or internal website. But that's about the extent of it.
I'll have to add that to the "why we should upgrade the build server" reasons. Thanks!
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C# 7.1. But I'm doing a "staff upgrade" on myself. The thing about new language features is not so much what one feature can add, but how together they change the way you code and think about solutions.
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RandyBuchholz wrote: The thing about new language features is not so much what one feature can add, but how together they change the way you code and think about solutions.
Yes!!!!
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Is a metronome a dwarf in the city?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You will apologise to the little ones right now! Or elf...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
modified 9-Oct-17 12:03pm.
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I think that you should kick the Hobbit!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Something is missing.... 'g', wonder what it is.
Be that as it may, timing is everything; except for eternity jokes.
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You're right, he should've gnome better.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The gsilence of the gnomes gknows gno gbounds.
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Gwho gknew?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Ppreseumably Ponly pthose pin pthe pknow.
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Your timing is impeccable! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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After some measured thought, all I can say is "beet's me". Was said urban dwarf a female, and if so, did you meter?
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