Core .NET Framework 4 Enhancements

Your presenter for today?

Robert MacLean− sadev.co.za− @rmaclean

What to expect

What are we covering?

Common Language Runtime

DLR

JITNGEN

Garbage Collector

Type System

Exception

handling

Hosting APIsLoader and

binderDebugging, …

Base Class Libraries

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All the small things

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Data

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In-process side-by-side (SxS)

.NET 2.0

.NET 4.0.NET 3.0

.NET 3.5

2.0 addin

3.0 addin

3.5 addin

4.0 addin

Host Process (eg: Outlook)

In Process SxS

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Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA)

COM

.NET

PIA

Meta Data(Headers)

Helper classes

PIA

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Tour of .NET 4

Part 2

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Parallel

OS

Thread

ThreadPool

Task Parallel Library

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Parallel Enhancements

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System.Device.Location

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Location

− Windows 7 only− Status will be Disabled for other platforms

− Geosense for Windows− http://geosenseforwindows.com/

Is this everything?

System.Numerics.ComplexTimeSpan Parsing Improvements

String Improvements

New helper method for StringBuilderNew helper method for StopWatch

New helper method and parsing options for EnumNew helper method for Streams

New helper method for System.IO.PathNew helper methods for UIntPtr and IntPtr

Better stream compression optionsNew helper method for Monitors

New helper method for ThreadImproved parsing for GUID

Improvements for Registries

New options for performance monitoring which are not invasiveF#

TuplesNew File and Directory Enumeration options based on generics

Memory Mapped Files

New ways to detect 64bit OS’s and processesImprovements to System.Enviroment

All the new security enhancements in networkingSupport for Teredo

Garbage Collection Improved

Ngen Improved

Future?

http://bcl.codeplex.com− BigRational− LongPath− PerfMonitor− TraceEvent

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