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Updating Visual Studio and C#
Unity Installer does a pore job of updating Visual Studio and the .NET Framework so there will be occasions when you need to do this yourself if you work with Unity for any period of time.
Visual Studio and .NET like any bit of software or framework do require the occasional update. If you have ever seen an error such as.
out variable declaration cannot be used because it is not part of the C# #.# language specification
or
Tuple must contain at least two elements
or
A new expression requires (),[] or...
Then the issue you have is you are on an older specification of C# and missing language features.
The easiest way to update is within Visual Studio itself. In many cases, you will see a yellow banner or flag in the upper right corner of the Visual Studio app you can click it and download and install updates.
If the flag is not present or you prefer another method you can press open the Start Menu on Windows and type Visual Studio Installer
In general, we recommend you keep your Visual Studio IDE up to date with the latest option available.
It's also advisable to insure you have all the components of Visual Studio installed for Unity development.
Click the "Modify" option
Scroll down to the Gaming section and you will see there are additional tools for Unity
It is also strongly advised that you keep the .NET Framework up to date with the latest option. You can expand the .NET Desktop Development option in the right side panel and insure features such as
- .NET Framework #.# development tools
- .NET profiling tools
- IntelliSense and or IntelliCode
And similar features are checked for install
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