.NET compiler platform package version reference
Applies to: 
Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
Note
This article applies to Visual Studio 2017. If you're looking for the latest Visual Studio documentation, see Visual Studio documentation. We recommend upgrading to the latest version of Visual Studio. Download it here
The following table shows which .NET compiler platform (Roslyn) package versions are supported for different versions of Visual Studio.
As an example, to ensure that your custom analyzer works on all versions of Visual Studio 2017, it should target version 2.0 of Microsoft.Net.Compilers.
| Roslyn package version | Minimum supported Visual Studio version |
|---|---|
| 4.x | Visual Studio 2022 |
| 3.x | Visual Studio 2019 |
| 2.10.0 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 |
| 2.9.0 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 |
| 2.8.2 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 |
| 2.7.0 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 |
| 2.6.1 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 |
| 2.4.0 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 |
| 2.3.2 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 |
| 2.2.0 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 |
| 2.1.0 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.1 |
| 2.0.0 | Visual Studio 2017 RTM |
| 1.3.2 | Visual Studio 2015 update 3 |
| 1.2.2 | Visual Studio 2015 update 2 |
| 1.1.1 | Visual Studio 2015 update 1 |
| 1.0.1 | Visual Studio 2015 RTM |
Tip
For Roslyn packages where the minimum supported Visual Studio version is a Visual Studio 2017 version, all versions of Visual Studio 2019 are also supported because they came later.