What's New in .NET 4.5

Pluralsight
Course Summary
Learn how to take advantage of well-known and obscure features in .NET 4.5. This course covers the breadth of the January 2013 release from async to zip.
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Course Description
Learn how to take advantage of well-known and obscure features in .NET 4.5. As an in-place update, some changes will happen when you target .NET 4.5, or you recompile with the new compilers, or your users upgrade libraries, often beyond your control. Improved behavior often has the downside of breaking changes and this course explores the possible downside of these changes. Written mostly in C#, the course also includes a module covering changes in Visual Basic. You’ll see the breadth of the release from async to zip, including improvements to tracing and MEF.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction- 9m 5s
—Overview 0m 40s
—The .NET 4.5 Release 2m 11s
—In-Place Update 4m 18s
—Summary 1m 56sChanges to the Core Framework- 1h 1m
—Overview 1m 37s
—Portable Class Libraries 7m 20s
—Targeting 32 and 64 bit 3m 57s
—Review Application Startup 3m 25s
—Automatic NGen 2m 41s
—Multicore Background JIT 6m 15s
—High Entropy ASLR 1m 15s
—Better Garbage Collection and Heaps 5m 2s
—Library Changes for Networking 3m 29s
—Readonly Collections 3m 47s
—The New Reflection Model 6m 32s
—Library Changes for Better Culture Support 2m 38s
—Improvements to Exception Management 1m 47s
—Selected BCL Improvements 5m 2s
—Miscellaneous: Large Arrays, Console Apps and Zip 4m 20s
—Summary 2m 41sEvent Source ETW Support- 34m 0sAsync and Parallelism- 59m 17sCaller Information- 16m 19sChanges to Visual Basic- 23m 48sChanges to the Managed Extensibility Framework- 36m 2sBreaking Changes- 41m 45s