Where can I find the C# 5 language specification?

c# c#-5.0 language-specifications
Mishax picture Mishax · Nov 20, 2012 · Viewed 11k times · Source

C# 5.0 is out now since August 2012. Where can I find the specification? They've stopped doing ECMA specs, but how about MSDN?

Answer

Dima picture Dima · Nov 20, 2012

If you have Visual Studio 2012 installed, you will find specification somewhere there:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC#\Specifications\1033\CSharp Language Specification.docx

similar with VS2013:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC#\Specifications\1033\CSharp Language Specification.docx

VS2015: 

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC#\Specifications\1033\CSharp Language Specification.docx

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