Question

Yes, I know async and friends does a lot behind the scenes, but how about “clean up” items (WPF support?) from the various wish lists? Or are there other C# 5.0 features that will be coming?

Answer 1

That’s all that’s been announced so far.

In his PDC talk, Anders did suggest that there may be some other features as well. My guess is that there won’t be anything on the same scale, but I’d certainly like there to be some extras. (I’d point to a specific bit of the video, but unfortunately it looks like it’s not available any more. Odd.)

It’s worth bearing in mind that Eric Lippert’s blog makes this point (in purple, of course, which sadly I don’t think I can emulate here):

We are absolutely positively not announcing any dates or ship vehicles at this time, so don’t even ask. Even if I knew, which I don’t, and even if my knowledge had the faintest chance of being accurate, which it doesn’t, I still wouldn’t tell you.

I don’t think it’s going to be worth trying to pry many extra details out of anyone for the moment. I suggest we all have a lot of fun with async (and in particular give feedback – I’m sure that the earlier MS hears community feedback, the more likely it will be to affect the shipping product) and just wait to hear more.