CS1617: Invalid option ‘6’ for /langversion; must be ISO-1, ISO-2, 3, 4, 5 or Default

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Kyle Carlson picture Kyle Carlson · Sep 3, 2015 · Viewed 118.5k times · Source

Kept getting that error when running a fresh ASP.NET MVC application (straight out of VS 2015 Community) on a Windows 2008 Server machine.

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Kyle Carlson picture Kyle Carlson · Sep 3, 2015

Lots of people are running into it, so I wanted to post here .

Found a crazy easy workaround thanks to this guy: Expertdebugger.

Simply downgrade your language version from C# 6 to C# 5, like so:

<system.codedom>
    <compilers>
      <compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" type="Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:6 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701">
        <providerOption name="CompilerVersion" value="v4.0"/>
      </compiler>
      <compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.VisualBasic.VBCodeProvider, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:14 /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\&quot;Web\&quot; /optionInfer+">
          <providerOption name="CompilerVersion" value="v4.0"/>
      </compiler>
    </compilers>
</system.codedom>

Change the langversion:6 towards the bottom from 6 to 5 - langversion:5

Fixed it for me. Thank him.

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