Switch expression not working in Unity 2020.3.3f1?

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Hey!

I’ve read that from Unity 2020.2 onwards some c#8 features like switch expressions are available in Unity.

I have this simple code piece that works for me in Unity 2020.2.1f:

public State GetState(StateType stateType)
        {
            return stateType switch
            {
                StateType.Idle => Idle,
                StateType.Move => Move,
                StateType.Fall => Fall,
                StateType.Climbing => Climbing,
                StateType.Jump => Jump,
                StateType.Attack => Attack,
                _ => throw new System.Exception("State not defined " + stateType.ToString()),
            };
        }

A friend with unity 2020.3.3f1 tried to type it and received an error:

His Visual Studio IDE doesn’t even show a quick help option to convert a default switch statement to switch expression which works perfectly fine in my project:

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Can there be any specific reason for this behaviour? Can outdated IDE cause the issue? I would assume that it isn’t caused by mistakenly creating a project in an older Unity version.

Thanks!

PS.
Project is indeed in 2020.3.3f1 so theoretically switch expressions should work there by default.

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Did they see the error in Unity or just in their IDE?

Have them regenerate project files in Unity and make sure their IDE is configured properly to work with Unity.

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Thanks for an answer. It seems like its a new PC with unity and VS installed together - so I assume that any configuration was done automatically during the installation of unity. I will double check just to be sure.

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Think it might be the Project version, if you open your Project in a text editor you can change which version of C# you’re using.

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This is my project version, and it doesn’t work for me.

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Thanks a lot for an answer!

Solution:
The issue was Visual studio version. My friend wa using VS 2017 and apparently c# 8 is only supported in VS 2019.

Thank you all for help!

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