Moving through the last few decades, from being the new kid on the block, .NET has turned itself into the most talked about young thing on the IT horizon. More and more people are getting inclined to use .NET, to make a mark in their career and also, more and more, clients are coming to .NET to accomplish their dreams. The recent buzz about C# being the best programming language has now made the world of developers very eager to build .NET applications. As the crowd is growing in the developers arena, there is always a need to have a clear perception on how things work and ways to make things better.
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook mainly focuses on things that you need to know in those crunch situations as a developer. It also tries to feed you with as much details as it can, and covers as much technological domain in the world of .NET. The book is written in the form of recipes with step-by-step tutorials on every topic where the developer accompanies the author in this wonderful journey into the known and hitherto unknown realms of .NET. The recipes in the book, which are mostly sought out by developers on the Internet, are chosen in such a way so as to practically demonstrate them and not restrict developers only to them, but to also expose the other unexplored domains on the same topic to give them a clear view of the whole picture. There is a special section for each recipes bearing the heading There's more…, which always focuses on giving you extra knowledge on things that you might have missed without it. By the time you come to the end of this journey, you will feel the comfort and enjoy the confidence that a clear understanding of the insight of .NET gives you.
The book is a practical handbook that could give you optimal utilization of time for knowledge. It separately presents the topics very precisely and elaborates the same which you can rely on for a deeper look. It explains the recipes with proper sample code blocks that might make the usage of each topic very clear and make you utilize the final source code while writing your real-world applications. The examples taken for this book will clear your understanding of how things exactly work for that particular recipe and also adapt you as a developer to make use of the same source code in your production environment efficiently and quickly. If you want to utilize your busy schedule to explore all the necessary ongoing technology in the market, this book is best suited for you.
The book focuses on giving you:
Maximum utilization of time for learning
Major insights into ongoing technologies such as Visual Studio 2012, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET, Windows 8 Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, HTML5, jQuery, memory management, and so on
Practical examples on procedures to create real-world applications
Step-by-step examples to create simple applications based on heads
Chapter 1, Introduction to Visual Studio IDE Features, starts with a basic introduction to Visual Studio IDE and gives the developer insights into how to increase productivity of development using a common set of tools and features present inside the IDE.
Chapter 2, Basics of .NET Programs and Memory Management, introduces the intersection of a .NET program and its core components. It dives deep in demonstrating the .NET infrastructure with detailed explanation of memory management and related techniques.
Chapter 3, Asynchronous Programming in .NET, focuses on introducing all existing techniques to deal with threading in .NET followed by the newer patterns that takes over the existing working principles with in-depth explanation on their working principles.
Chapter 4, Enhancements to ASP.NET, gives you an introduction to latest enhancements of ASP.NET 4.5 with HTML5 and jQuery. It also introduces some of the performance boosters available in .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 with ASP.NET.
Chapter 5, Enhancements to WPF, introduces the enhancements to WPF 4.5 and the major components of WPF. It gives a practical implementation of MVVM based WPF application covering all the facets required to program in WPF environment.
Chapter 6, Building Touch-sensitive Device Applications in Windows 8, introduces the new programming model for developing Windows 8 style tiles application. It gives a step-by-step introduction in how to program using HTML5 and JavaScript as well as WPF and C# for developing Windows 8 applications.
Chapter 7, Communication and Sharing Using Windows 8, focuses on how to implement network-enabled applications in Windows 8 with step by step implementation on how sharing and searching works inside the Windows 8 environment.
Appendix, .NET languages and its Construct, focuses on giving insights on how languages work in the .NET framework and C# with details explanation with examples of various features of C# language.
You can download this Appendix from http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/6709EN_Appendix_NET_Languages_and_its_Construct.pdf
The basic software requirements for this book are as follows:
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and higher
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express or higher editions
Windows 8 Operating System (especially to work with Chapter 6 and 7)
Latest web browsers
The purpose of this book is to give you ready made steps in the form of recipes to develop common tasks that, as a developer, you might often be required to access. The book utilizes its chapters skillfully to provide as much information as it can and also with as much detail as necessary to kick start the subject. The book also delivers in-depth analysis of some advanced section of the subject to get you to expertise level. If you are a starter in the development environment and want to get expertise on ongoing technologies in the market, this book is ideal for you. Even for architects and project managers, the book can be a guide to enrich their existing knowledge.
The book uses C# and Visual Studio 2012 with Windows 8 (as the operating system) in the examples. Even though the book does not require any knowledge to start, it expects some basic theoretical and practical overall experience on the subjects to understand the recipes. The book bridges the gap between a normal developer to an expert architect.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: "The requestValidationMode attribute of httpRuntime defines how the request is validated to the server before calling HttpPipeline."
A block of code is set as follows:
(function($){
$.fn.extend({
Value1 : 20,
myMethod : function(msg){
alert(msg + "value : " + this.Value1);
}
});
})(JQuery);Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
Install-Package Microsoft.Web.Optimization
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "you can also open Nuget package manager by right-clicking on the references folder of the project and select Add Library Package Reference".
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