pluralsight - What's New in .NET 4.5 (2013)

Introduction

Overview
The .NET 4.5 Release
In-Place Update
Summary

Changes to the Core Framework

Overview
Portable Class Libraries
Targeting 32 and 64 bit
Review Application Startup
Automatic NGen
Multicore Background JIT
High Entropy ASLR
Better Garbage Collection and Heaps
Library Changes for Networking
Readonly Collections
The New Reflection Model
Library Changes for Better Culture Support
Improvements to Exception Management
Selected BCL Improvements
Miscellaneous: Large Arrays, Console Apps and Zip
Summary

Event Source ETW Support

Overview
Value Proposition for ETW
ETW Design
Introducing the Event Source Class
Demo: Creating and Capturing Events with PerfView
Advanced Features for Defining and Collecting Events
Performance Implications - How Fast is Fast?
Summary

Async and Parallelism

Overview
Conceptual Async
Demo: The Simplest Possible Async
Managing Exceptions
New Task Members: WhenAll
New Task Members: WhenAny
New Task Members: Run and FromResult
New Task Members: Delay, Yield, and ConfigureAwait
Handling Cancellation and Timeout
Reporting Progress
Demo: Async Debugging
Visual Studio Debugging
Demo: Visual Studio Debugging
Summary

Caller Information

Overview
Caller Information Attributes
Using Caller Information for Logging
Using Caller Information to Implement INotifyPropertyChanged
Summary

Changes to Visual Basic

Overview
Iterators
Demo: Call Hierarchy
Using the Global Keyword to Manage Namespaces
Changes to How the Editor Alters Your Code
Upgrades to Overloads and Implicit Return Types
Improvements in the Visual Basic Compiler
Visual Basic Syntax for Async and Caller Info
Summary

Changes to the Managed Extensibility Framework

Overview
Dependency Injection and MEF Design
The New Inference Model for Container Creation
Demo: .NET 4.0 Example
Demo: Converting the Example to .NET 4.5
Demo: Adding an Importing Constructor for Attribute Free MEF
Using Open Generics Resolution
Controlling Lifetime and Scope
Improved Diagnostics
Alternate Versions of MEF
Summary

Breaking Changes

Overview
Breaking Changes in Perspective
Managing Different Versions of .NET
Breaking Changes: Core Framework
Breaking Changes: Networking
Breaking Changes: UI Libraries
Breaking Changes: Workflow and WCF
Breaking Changes: MSBuild
Breaking Changes: Data
Breaking Changes: CSharp
Breaking Changes: Visual Basic
Breaking Change: For Each Lifting
Impact of the January 2013Updates
Summary

General
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