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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Name: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook
Author: Jose Luis Latorre Millas

Jose Luis Latorre Millas,

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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Jose Luis Latorre Millas,

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With about ten years since its first release, Microsoft's .NET Framework 4.5 is one of the most solid development technologies to create casual, business, or enterprise applications. It has evolved into a very stable framework and solid framework for developing applications, with a solid core, called the CLR (Common Language Runtime) Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 includes massive changes and enables modern application and UI development.

"Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook" aims to give you a run through the most exciting features of the latest version. You will experience all the flavors of .NET 4.5 hands on. The "How-to" recipes mix the right ingredients for a final taste of the most appetizing features and characteristics. The book is written in a way that enables you to dip in and out of the chapters.

The book is full of practical code examples that are designed to clearly exemplify the different features and their applications in real-world development. All the chapters and recipes are progressive and based on the fresh features on .NET Framework 4.5.

The book will begin by teaching you to build a modern UI application and improve it to make it Windows 8 Modern UI apps lifecycle model-compliant. You will create a portable library and throttle data source updating delays. Towards the end of the book, you will create you first Web API.

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"Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook" is a concise and practical cookbook with recipes which get you up and running straight away with all the new functionality of .NET Framework 4.5.

Who this book is for

If you are a .NET developer and would like to learn the new features in .NET 4.5, then this book is just for you. Prior experience with .NET Framework would be useful, but not necessary.

"Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook" gives architects and project managers a high-level overview and clear understanding of what .NET 4.5 Framework provides and how it can be used.

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Publisher

Packt Publishing

Year

2013

ISBN

9781849686983

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Topic

Informatique

Subtopic

Applications de l'entreprise

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Windows Store Apps

Introduction

Building our first Windows Store app

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Adding a splash screen (and app tiles) to our app

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Improving the application to make it compliant with the Windows 8 lifecycle model

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Improving our application tile

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Improving our application with toast notifications

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

2. Exploring the Top New Features of the CLR

Introduction

Creating a portable library

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Controlling the timeout in regular expressions

How to do it...

How it works...

There'smore...

Defining the culture for an application domain

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Overriding the default reflection behavior

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the new ZipArchive class

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Understanding async and await in .NET 4.5

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the new asynchronous file I/O operations

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

3. Understanding the New Networking Capabilities

Introduction

Using the HttpClient and the new System.Net.Http namespaces

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

4. Understanding the new features of Entity Framework 5.0

Introduction

Creating our first "Code First" application

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using Code First Migrations

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

5. Understanding the New Features of ASP.NET

Introduction

Creating our first ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms application

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Configuring our application to use unobtrusive validation

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using Smart Tasks in the HTML editor

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using WAI-ARIA support

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the Extract to User Control feature

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the Page Inspector feature

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating an asynchronous HTTP module

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

6. Implementing WPF's new features

Introduction

Implementing asynchronous error handling with INotifyDataErrorInfo

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the WeakEvent pattern with WeakEventManager

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the dispatcher's new features

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Data binding to static properties

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Throttling data source update delays

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

LiveShaping – repositioning elements when its bound data changes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

7. Applying the New WCF Features

Introduction

Using the asynchronous features of WCF

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using WebSockets

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using Contract First development

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

8. Creating and Hosting Our First ASP.NET Web API

Introduction

Creating our first ASP.NET web API

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Implementing a CRUD ASP.NET web API

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Setting up a self-hosted ASP.NET web API

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

9. Using the New Capabilities of WF

Introduction

Creating a state machine workflow

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the enhanced designer features

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

A. Resources for Further Knowledge

Resources for knowing more about .NET 4.5 and its tools

Resources for knowing more about Windows 8

Resources for knowing more about general development

B. .NET 4.5 – Deployment Risks and Issues

Introduction

Risks of the in-place upgrade

Platform targeting

Other risks

Index

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

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