What's new in C# 6.0

Some pretty interesting features appeared in this version of the language, in many cases, linked to everyday problems and suggestions of developers worldwide. Also, as stated in Table 1 of this chapter, the really huge, meaningful improvement comes from a set of functionalities linked to Roslyn Services, which provide a different bunch of possibilities related to the editing and compiling features of the IDE. We will cover these in Chapter 8, Open Source Programming.

However, Roselyn is not the only interesting option that appeared in C# 6.0. There are a number of minor but very useful and syntactic "sweets" this version includes, which help the coder write more succinct expressions and reduce the occurrence of bugs. Let's start with something called string interpolation.

String interpolation

String interpolation is a way to simplify string expressions that contain C/C++ style interpolation. For instance, instead of writing the classic Console.Write("string {0}", data)...