Lap around .NET and Visual Studio 2012Robert MacLeanTechnology SpecialistBBD

The platter of .NET 4.5 & VS 2012 featuresLOT’S of demo’sHigh level explanationsNot covering or even mentioning everything – not enough time

No ALM or Windows Store appsLeave wanting to explore more!

WelcomeWhat can you expect from this talk!

A little historyMy favoritesWorkflow FoundationAsync

Visual Studio throughout!

AgendaPart 1

WCFEntity FrameworkLightswitchASP.NET MVC

Visual Studio throughout!

AgendaPart 2

History lesson timeHow does .NET 4.5 work with previous versions?

CLR 1.0 CLR 1.1 CLR 4.0CLR 2.0

.NET

1.0

C#

1.0

VB

7.0

.NET

1.1

C#

1.2

VB

7.1

.NET

2.0

C#

2.0

VB

8.0

.NET

3.0

C#

2.0

VB

8.0

.NET

3.5

C#

3.0

VB

9.0

.NET

3.5

SP 1

C#

3.0

VB

9.0

.NET 4

C#

4.0

VB

10.0

.NET

4.5

C#

5.0

VB

11

.0

Released 13 Feb 2002

Visual Studio CadenceOut of band updates with new featuresEvery quarter

User Voice

A different style of work

My favorite things

Visual Studio 2012 upgrading is risk lessCulture can be controlled globally in code

Important with the changes in numbers with Windows 8Can also control in app.config

CallerMemberName makes code less brittle & provides smart ways to inspect what is happening!

CallerFilePathCallerLineNumber

My favorite thingsReview

What is new in Workflow Foundation?

Workflow

Workflow persistenceWhat is that?

Workflow

Wait for later time

Crashes

Wait for event

Timer

Admin

Event

Code

Database Server

Workflow persistenceWhat is the problem?

Workflow

Wait for later time

Crashes

Wait for event

Timer

Admin

Event

Code

Database Server

Workflow 4.5 has versioningSide by side versioningDynamic update versioning

Workflow persistenceThe solution

State machine supported out of the boxwf.codeplex.com

C# expression supportDesign surface is vastly improved

Quick add sequenceAnnotationsSearchDocument outline

Workflow Persistence Versioning

What is new in Workflow Foundation?Review

Async

await & async modifiers give us syntactic sugar.Built on top of Task Parallel Library (TPL), so all the TPL knowledge from .NET 4 is useful. New TPL features

WhenAll, WhenAny, Delay

Plenty of new API’s inside .NET take advantage of this.

AsyncReview

Microsoft new work style: Cadence & User VoiceVisual Studio upgrading is risk freeFavorites: CallerMemberName & CultureWorkflow designer improvements = productivity improvementsWorkflow versioningAsync – the solution to most of your concurrency issues

Part 1 reviewReview

End of part oneSee you after the break

Lap around .NET and Visual Studio 2012Robert MacLeanTechnology SpecialistBBD

Continuation from part 1The platter of .NET 4.5 & VS 2012 features

LOT’S of demo’sHigh level explanationsNot covering or even mentioning everything – not enough time

No ALM or Windows Store appsLeave wanting to explore more!

WelcomeWhat can you expect from this talk!

A little historyMy favoritesWorkflow FoundationAsync

Visual Studio throughout!

What we have already seenPart 1

WCFEntity FrameworkLightswitchASP.NET MVC

Visual Studio throughout!

AgendaPart 2

What’s new in WCF 4.5?

Configuration improvements mean less head scratchingWeb socket support for better interop

Didn’t show it, but we also have UDP support now

What’s new in WCF 4.5Review

Entity Framework 5

Runs on it’s own cadence – so more features & improvements more oftenEnum support throughoutSupport for localdb Designer improvements!

Entity Framework 5Review

Lightswitch

LightswitchThemes

Included with Visual Studio Pro+ for freeNew shell & themesService only publishingBest way to create OData services

LightswitchReview

What is new in ASP.NET?

BundlesJust how big an improvement?

To 59.83 KB + one call overhead

From 353,5 KB + multiple call overhead+84% improvement

OData versus WebAPIWCF Data Services Web API

What do you get? Server and client Server only

Compliance High High-Medium-Low

Maturity High Preview -> V1

OData coverage High Low - Medium

Flexibility Low High

Key requirements IQueryable -

Business logic Medium Easy

Formats OData only Any format

Untyped Yes No

WCF Data Services is like views on a databaseWeb API is like stored procs on a database

Shipping on own cadence – so more toys more oftenNew out of the box RESPONSIVE templatesVisual Studio Improvements

Page inspectorCSSJavaScriptMultiple browser support

BundlesWebAPI

ASP.NETReview

WCF config improvements & new protocolsEF running on their own cadence, enum support & designer improvementsLightswitch – best way to great OData servicesASP.NET: own cadence, great UI, development improvements everywhere, bundles, WebAPI!

Part 2 reviewReview

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