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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

Using Contract First development


Contract First development comes to us in .NET 4.5 WCF as the ability to create the service interface and data contract from a WSDL file. The WSDL file is generated in the svcutil.exe application with the /servicecontract flag.

This provides an excellent way to parallelize development since we can work on the backend service while it is being constructed, given that the service requirements and contract have been defined beforehand.

In this recipe, we will see how to use this new feature.

Getting ready

In order to use this recipe, you should have Visual Studio 2012 installed and a WSDL contract. For this recipe, we will use the dynamically generated web service we implemented in the first recipe.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we are going to generate a client for a WSDL file.

  1. Open the project of our first recipe and set the ASP.NET website that hosts the asynchronous web service. Navigate on the browser to the web service, appending ?wsdl to the address. You should...