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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

By : Jose Luis Latorre
Book Image

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

By: Jose Luis Latorre

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


.NET 4.5 brings improved capabilities in networking such as more support for internationalization, protocol improvements, better performance, and new programming interfaces for HTTP and WebSockets. The main improvement is that it now fully supports WebSockets and the complete HTTP standard.

.NET Framework 4.5 enhances internationalization with the following features

  • Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) support

  • E-mail Address Internationalization (EAI) support

  • International Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) support, compliant with the latest RFCs from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Regarding protocol support, the additions are:

  • Better IPv6 support

  • Improved Sockets protocol support with a dual-mode socket support

As for new namespaces, we now have System.Net.Http, System.Net.Http.Headers, and System.Net.WebSockets namespaces. We have improvements on classes such as HttpListener, Uri, Socket, and on namespaces such as System.Net.Mail or System.Net.NetworkInformation.

We...