C# 9 and .NET Core 5.0 — How to install and use it in project

C# 9.0 and .NET Core 5.0

Officially Microsoft launches C# 9 with .NET 5 Core version. You can download .NET 5.0 from here.

Download .NET 5.0 (Linux, macOS, and Windows)

You can download latest version .NET 5.1 Core for Visual Studio 2019 (v16.8) / Visual Studio 2019 for Mac (v8.8). Please update Visual Studio to this version if you don’t have already.

Create project using .NET 5.0

Create project by selecting Class Library (.NET Core).

Once project is created, set Target Framework to .NET 5.0 from project file properties and click on save. You can also change the version of existing project.

You are done, now you can explore new features from C# 9 and .NET Core 5.0.