Introducing .NET 4.5 [electronic resource] /
Mackey, Alex.author.
Stewart Tulloch, William.author.
Krishnan, Mahesh.author.
Microsoft has introduced a large number of changes to the way that the .NET Framework operates. Familiar technologies have being altered, best practices replaced, and developer methodologies adjusted. Many developers find it hard to keep up with the pace of change across .NET's ever-widening array of technologies. The introduction of Windows 8 and its new style of applications only compounds the problem. You may know what's happening in C#, but what about the latest innovations in the cloud? How is that going to affect your work? What possibilities do the new async capabilities bring? What you need is a roadmap. A guide to help you see the innovations that matter and to give you a head start on the opportunities available in the new framework. Introducing .NET 4.5 is designed to provide you with just that roadmap. It serves as a no-nonsense primer that will help experienced .NET developers understand the impact of the new framework and the technologies that co-exist with it. This book will keep you updated on the changes and help you to seize new opportunities confidently and quickly.
"User level: Intermediate-advanced"--P. [4] of cover.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Structured; Downloading the Code; Contacting the Author; Chapter 1: Introduction; Aims; Changes; Work in Progress!; What We Will Cover; What We Won't Cover; Downloadable Examples; .NET 4.5 Themes; Making Async Programming as Easy as Possible; Promoting NuGet as the Preferred Distribution and Update Mechanism; Supporting Emerging Standards and Technologies; Making It Easy to Develop on Different Devices and Other Platforms
Continuing the Move toward OpennessVisual Studio 2012 Editions; What Others Think of Visual Studio 2012 /.NET 4.5; Mitch Denny, Director at Unpedestrian; Brendan Forster, ASP.NET MVP and Code52 Coordinator; Richard Banks, MVP and Author of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 First Look Cookbook; Phillip Laureano, Creator of Linfu framework; Steve Godbold (Technical Reviewer); Alex Mackey (Author);  MVP Internet Explorer: Development; William Tulloch (Author); Mahesh Krishnan (Author); Chapter 2: IDE Improvements; Compatibility with VS2010 SP1 Projects; Toolbar Changes; Quick Launch Box
Quick Launch OptionsSearch Improvements; Search Everywhere!; Parallel Watch Supports Boolean Expressions; Solution Explorer Enhancements; Collapse All; Pending Changes and Open Files Filter; Preview Selected Items; Sync with Active Document; Masked Renaming files; Image Preview; Scope to This; Hubs and Pivots; Improved Multi Monitor Support; Tabs and Preview Mode; Navigating Back and Forward Now Opens Closed Files; Tabs Stay Put; Pinned Tabs Changes; Add References; Web IDE Improvements; New Debug in Different Browser Option; Page Inspector; Rename Matched Tag; IntelliSense Improvements
Figure 2-33. IntelliSense inside attributesQuotation Tweak; Sal Server Object Window; Figure 2-34. New SQl Server Object window; Support for Different Test Frameworks; Figure 2-35. Installing xUnit.net runner; ASP.NET Web Forms; Extract to User Control; Event Handler Creation; Smart Tasks Support in Code Editor; Better Support for Emerging Technologies; HTMl5; CSS Changes; Smart indenting; CSS Hack Support; Comment/Uncomment CSS; CSS Color Picker; WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications); JavaScript Improvements; JavaScript Console and DOM Explorer
Implicit References and Reference GroupsIntelliSense for Overloaded JS Functions; Miscellaneous Changes; VSUpdate; Performance Improvements; Simplified Remote Debugger Options; Stand-Alone IntelliTrace Collector Utilities; Publish Profile Changes; Fakes Framework; Stubs; Shims; Dotfuscator PreEmptive Analytics; Other Changes; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The BCL and the CLR; Changes and Improvements in the BCL; Console Support for UTF-16; Timeout Support for Regular Expressions; System.IO.Compression; The ZipFile Class; WeakReference; Changes in Streams
Defining a Culture for an Application Domain
Includes index.
Microsoft has introduced a large number of changes to the way that the .NET Framework operates. Familiar technologies have being altered, best practices replaced, and developer methodologies adjusted. Many developers find it hard to keep up with the pace of change across .NET's ever-widening array of technologies. The introduction of Windows 8 and its new style of applications only compounds the problem. You may know what's happening in C#, but what about the latest innovations in the cloud? How is that going to affect your work? What possibilities do the new async capabilities bring? What you need is a roadmap. A guide to help you see the innovations that matter and to give you a head start on the opportunities available in the new framework. Introducing .NET 4.5 is designed to provide you with just that roadmap. It serves as a no-nonsense primer that will help experienced .NET developers understand the impact of the new framework and the technologies that co-exist with it. This book will keep you updated on the changes and help you to seize new opportunities confidently and quickly.
"User level: Intermediate-advanced"--P. [4] of cover.
Microsoft Visual studio.
Microsoft .NET Framework.
Microsoft software.
Microsoft .NET Framework.
Software engineering.
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Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.