Using nameof function in VS 2010

The project I am developing was created in visual studio 2010. I would like to make a small addition to this project. I need to use nameof function to pass data to combobox. But, Visual studio 2010 doesn't include nameof function.

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    ComboBox _comboBox;
    List<Instructor> _instructors;

    public Form1()
    {
        //InitializeComponent();

        var set = new HashSet<Instructor>(new InstructorComparer());
        var xml = XElement.Load("test.xml");
        foreach (var node in xml.Elements("Test").Elements("Instructor"))
        {
            var instructor = new Instructor
            {
                Num = (int)node.Attribute("Num"),
                Name = node.Element("Name").Value
            };
            set.Add(instructor);
        }

        _instructors = set.ToList();

        _comboBox.DisplayMember = nameof(Instructor.Num);
        _comboBox.DataSource = _instructors;
    }
}

What solutions do you have for this problem? thanks

Just write "Num" instead of nameof(Instructor.Num) as this is what nameof evaluates to.

The nameof feature is part of C# 6. Visual Studio 2010 by default uses C# version 4. It can be changed by using a newer .NET Framework SDK.

If you need to use C# 6 language features with the current .NET Framework you can try using Microsoft.Net.Compilers NuGet package. If you add it to your project(s) the C# compiler from this package will be used instead of the default one.

This package itself depends on the version of MSBuild and .NET Framework, so you'll have to use some old version of this package. Please check version 1.3.2, I was able to use it with VS 2013, and the next version (2.0.0) required a newer MSBuild which in turn required newer .NET Framework.

Here is the list of versions of Microsoft.Net.Compilers package with the detailed information:
https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/docs/wiki/NuGet-packages.md

According to the following description, version 1.3.2 should be the right one:
> Versions 1.x mean C# 6.0 and VB 14 (Visual Studio 2015 and updates). For instance, 1.3.2 corresponds to the most recent update (update 3) of Visual Studio 2015.