Introducing .NET Framework 4.5

[dequadin]

Last week at the BUILD conference, we had the pleasure of announcing the next version of the .NET Framework and releasing a developer preview at the same time. We have so many new things in .NET 4.5 to discuss with our developer community – we’re excited to have this opportunity to begin a discussion about each of them.

At the BUILD conference, many talks provided a glimpse of what .NET 4.5 has to offer. These are some of our favorite talks:

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[FarligOpptreden]

Hmmm... nothing that makes me too excited yet...

 

[dequadin]

Hmmm... nothing that makes me too excited yet...

Yeah,

await

looks like it will be useful, but apart from that mostly Win8 stuff...

 

[roguemat]

Can't remember where I read it but apparently there are some good improvements to the RAM overhead - if so, that's pretty interesting

 

[dequadin]

Can't remember where I read it but apparently there are some good improvements to the RAM overhead - if so, that's pretty interesting

Yeah I watched a bit of the intro video, they have .NET 3.5 on demand. Which means it only loads portions of the framework you're actually using.

 

[bin3]

Lol, love this:

Networking:

RFC-compliant URI support.

Only took them, what: 12 years?