C Sharp (programming language)

The title of this article is wrong due to some technical limitations. The right title is C# (programming language).

C# (pronounced "see sharp") is a computer programming language. It is developed by Microsoft. It was created to use all capacities of the .NET platform. The first version was released in 2001. C# is a modern language in active development, with the most recent version at time of writing being C# 13, which was released in June 2024 alongside .NET 9. C#'s development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Delphi.

C#

Designed by	Microsoft
Developer	Microsoft
First appeared	2000 (2000)
Stable release	12.0  / 14 November 2023 (14 November 2023)
Filename extensions	.cs
Website	docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/,%20https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/dotnet/csharp/,%20https://docs.microsoft.com/ja-jp/dotnet/csharp/,%20https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/dotnet/csharp/,%20https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/dotnet/csharp/

This article is about the programming language. For the musical scale, see C-sharp major.

Execution Platform

• The Microsoft .NET platform;
• Free implementation of C# and .NET like Mono developed by Novell, or dotGNU developed by the Free Software Foundation.

Today, C# can be run on most platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, etc.) without changing the source code. C# can be run on the Xbox 360 platform with a special framework.

Syntax

C# code is similar to C++ and Java code. The CLR (Common Language Runtime) is needed in order to run a C# program.

"Hello, World!" example

/* This is a simple program in C#. 
 * It simply shows "Hello, World!" on the screen.
 */
using System;
namespace HelloWorld
{
  class Hello
  {
    static void Main()
    {
      Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
      
      // The piece of code below is optional, but is needed to prevent the program from closing immediately.
      
      Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
      Console.ReadKey();
    }
  } 
}

Basic input example

/* 
 * This program asks for input from the user, i.e. a name. It then prints "Hello [name]", replacing [name] with whatever the person typed in.
 */
using System;
namespace HelloWorld
{
  class Hello
  {
    static void Main()
    {
      Console.WriteLine("Hello, please type in your name:");
      string name = Console.ReadLine();
      Console.WriteLine("Hello {0}",name);
      Console.ReadKey();
    }
  } 
}

Integrated Development Environments

C# can be edited in a number of IDEs (Integrated Development Environments), some of which are listed below:

Windows:

• Microsoft Visual Studio
• SharpDevelop
• Visual C#
• Visual C# Express
• Rider

Mac OS X:

• MonoDevelop (With limitations)
• Microsoft Visual Studio

Unix/Linux:

• MonoDevelop

Related pages

• Object-oriented programming
• C (programming language)
• C++
• Java

Other websites

• C#.NET in Hindi - सीखें आसानी से।
• C# Station, Example, Video
• Visual C# Developer Center
• C# lessons Archived 2014-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
• c# continue at CodeExampler for Free
• C# Station Archived 2007-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Visual C#
• Introduction to the C# Language and the .NET Framework
• C# / CSharp Tutorial
• Visual C# Tutorials and Lessons (Learn C#) Archived 2013-04-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Visual C# .NET Programming on http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/
• Examples for C# Essentials Archived 2012-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Learn C# with Examples (C# Tutorial)
• C# Programming Examples Archived 2021-05-07 at the Wayback Machine