Z vícero zdrojů jsem sepsal seznam chystaných novinek v .NET Framework verze 4.5.
.NET for Metro style apps
- A subset of the .NET Framework 4.5 for building Metro style apps for Windows 8
Portable Class Libraries
- managed assemblies that work on multiple .NET Framework platforms
BCL
- Usability improved for WeakReference and Streams
- Asynchronous versions for key interfaces e.g. File IO (Streams, FileStream)
- New ArraySegment, ReadOnlyDictionary classes
- Improved server Garbage Collector
- New Zip library (in System.IO.Compression namespace)
- DeflateStream and GZipStream compression improvements
- Support for CLR objects larger than 2GB on 64-bit platforms
- Ability to limit how long the regular expression engine will attempt to resolve a regular expression before it times out (Regex.MatchTimeout property)
- Ability to customize a reflection context to override default reflection behavior through the CustomReflectionContext class.
- Better performance when retrieving resources
- Unicode improvements (v6, console support) (UTF-16)
- Background JIT on multicore platforms
TPL
- Task Parallel Library Improvements
- Task-based model for performing asynchronous operations. (Async, GetAwaiter)
- Timeouts and Cancellation
- Task Creation (Task.Run)
- Task.WhenAll / Task.WhenAny
- Task scheduling
- TPL Dataflow
- Partitioning, Reductions
Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) 4.5
Další informace viz článek zde.
Networking
WCF
- Simplification of configuration files (throttles/quotas)
- WCF Configuration Validation
- Contract-first development.
- New asynchronous streaming support.
- Multiple auth modes for HTTP endpoints
- Ability to generate metadata in a single WSDL document
- WebSocket Support
- Support for UDP multicast channels
- TCP channels now work with partial trust
- Configuring WCF Services in Code
- ChannelFactory Caching
- Binary encoder compression support.
- New simple HttpClient class
ADO.NET
- Sparse columns support improved
- Support for SQL Server 2012 features
- Asynchronous operations
Entity Framework 5
- Code-first support
- Migrations for schema changes
- Multiple diagrams per model
- Multi-result sproc support
- Table-value function support
- Enums support
- Spatial data types
- Designer improvements
ASP.NET
- Faster startup (35%)
- Support HTML 5
- Support for unobtrusive JavaScript in client-side validation scripts.
- Asynchronous pipeline support (HTTP response, request), asynchronous modules and handlers
- Request Validation
- ASP.NET Web API - new framework for REST endpoints
- Web Forms
- Strongly Typed Data Binding
- Model Binding
- HTML encoded binding expressions
- Multifile support for FileUpload control
- ASP.NET MVC 4
- Async controllers
- Mobile templates
- Alternate views
- Support for Recipes
- ASP.NET Web Pages 2
- New site templates
- Versatile validation support
- Support for OAuth, OpenID
- IIS Express by default
- Assembly sharing between sites
- Integrated AntiXSS library (Anti-XSS encoders)
- Support for WebSockets protocol
- Natively support SQL Azure
WPF
- Built-in Ribbon controls
- Ability to add breakpoints to databindings
- The new INotifyDataErrorInfo interface, which supports synchronous and asynchronous data validation.
- Binding to static properties
- Binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider
- Automatically updating the source of a data binding
- Improved support for establishing a Weak Reference to an Event
- New features for the VirtualizingPanel.
- New methods for the Dispatcher class
- Markup Extensions for Events
- Support for new Aero Lite and High Contrast Themes in Windows 8
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
- C# Expressions
- State machine workflows.
- Workflow versioning
- Code-first activity design
- Runtime Performance
- Design usability improvements
MEF 2.0
- Support for Generics
- Support for explicit and Convention-based bindings between objects
- Support for binding POCOs
- Multiple scopes.
- Debugging improvements
