Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Chapter 1: Windows Store Apps 7
Introduction 7
Building our first Windows Store app 10
Adding a splash screen (and app tiles) to our app 21
Improving the application to make it compliant with the
Windows 8 lifecycle model 24
Improving our application tile 33
Improving our application with toast notifications 40
Chapter 2: Exploring the Top New Features of the CLR 43
Introduction 43
Creating a portable library 45
Controlling the timeout in regular expressions 49
Defining the culture for an application domain 52
Overriding the default reflection behavior 53
Using the new ZipArchive class 56
Understanding async and await in .NET 4.5 59
Using the new asynchronous file I/O operations 63
Chapter 3: Understanding the New Networking Capabilities 67
Introduction 67
Using the HttpClient and the new System.Net.Http namespaces 68
Chapter 4: Understanding the new features of Entity Framework 5.0 75
Introduction 75
Creating our first "Code First" application 76

Chapter 5: Understanding the New Features of ASP.NET 89
Introduction 89
Creating our first ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms application 90
Configuring our application to use unobtrusive validation 103
Using Smart Tasks in the HTML editor 107
Using WAI-ARIA support 109
Using the Extract to User Control feature 110
Using the Page Inspector feature 112
Creating an asynchronous HTTP module 114
Chapter 6: Implementing WPF's new features 117
Introduction 117
Implementing asynchronous error handling with INotifyDataErrorInfo 118
Using the WeakEvent pattern with WeakEventManager 125
Using the dispatcher's new features 127
Data binding to static properties 130
Throttling data source update delays 133
LiveShaping – repositioning elements when its bound data changes 138
Chapter 7: Applying the New WCF Features 145
Introduction 145
Using the asynchronous features of WCF 145
Using WebSockets 149
Using Contract First development 156
Chapter 8: Creating and Hosting Our First ASP.NET Web API 161
Introduction 161
Creating our first ASP.NET web API 162
Implementing a CRUD ASP.NET web API 170
Setting up a self-hosted ASP.NET web API 175
Chapter 9: Using the New Capabilities of WF 181
Introduction 181
Creating a state machine workflow 182
Using the enhanced designer features 193
Appendix A: Resources for Further Knowledge 199
Resources for knowing more about .NET 4.5 and its tools 199
Resources for knowing more about Windows 8 200
Resources for knowing more about general development 201