Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook -- Table of Contents -- Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook -- Credits -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to Visual Studio IDE Features -- Introduction -- Evolution of Visual Studio -- Identifying the various components of Visual Studio IDE -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more... -- Visual Studio command switches -- Working with Solution Explorer and Class View -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more... -- Previewing images in Solution Explorer -- Different IDE editors -- Working with the main workspace area of IDE -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Docking windows inside the IDE workspace -- Search IDE features -- Preview files in IDE -- Navigating between code inside the IDE -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more... -- Architecture Explorer -- Sequence diagrams -- Task List -- Bookmark menu -- The Code Definition window -- Extension Manager -- What is MSBuild and how can I use it? -- Debugging the application -- See also -- Extending Visual Studio templates -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Adding custom parameters -- Creating a template with more than one project -- See also -- Using Code Snippets in Visual Studio -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more… -- Organizing Usings -- Outlining -- Using the Toolbox.

Using Smart Tags and Refactor in Visual Studio -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Clone Code Detection -- See also -- 2. Basics of .NET Programs and Memory Management -- Introduction -- Inspecting the internal structure of a .NET assembly -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Inspecting by using an assembly viewer -- Working with different types of assemblies -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating a friend assembly -- How to delay sign an assembly -- How to share a private assembly between more than one application -- How to use the Global Assembly Cache tool -- Inspecting the major components of a .NET program -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Entry point -- The AssemblyInfo file -- The application manifest file -- The application configuration file -- There's more... -- How to work with custom configurations for an application -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more… -- How to change the configuration of an application at runtime -- How to deal with configuration versions -- How to disassemble an assembly -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- How to disassemble an assembly using Reflector -- How to merge assemblies into one -- What is IL Weaving -- Securing your code from reverse engineering by using obfuscation -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using different additional options on Dotfuscator -- Configuring an assembly directly from Visual Studio -- Obfuscation using -- Understanding .NET garbage collection and memory management -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The effect of finalizer on garbage collection -- Optimizing native images using Managed Profile Guided Optimization.

Multicore JIT -- See also -- How to find memory leaks in a .NET program -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- What are weak references in .NET -- What are lazy objects in .NET -- Lazy -- ThreadLocal -- LazyInitializer -- How to use Visual Studio to create memory dump files -- How to isolate code using AppDomain -- Solutions to 10 common mistakes made by developers while writing code -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Never declare structs if you don't have good reason to -- Do not create a list from IEnumerable before iterating on it -- See also… -- 3. Asynchronous Programming in .NET -- Introduction -- Introduction to Threading and Asynchronous Threading patterns -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Relation between a Process, AppDomain, and Thread -- What is a Waithandle class and why is it important? -- How does the Barrier class in .NET work? -- What is SynchronizationContext? -- See also -- Working with Event-based asynchronous pattern and BackgroundWorker -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Working with thread locking and synchronization -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- How to determine Mutex of a Thread? -- Use Mutex for Instance Count -- Locking using Spinlock -- ReaderWriterLock for non-blocking synchronization constructs -- See also -- Lock statement using task-based parallelism in concurrent programming -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- How to handle exceptions inside a Task? -- How to work with TPL without concurrency? -- How to create custom TaskScheduler? -- How to deal with PLINQ? -- See also -- Working with async and await patterns -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more...

How to write Async anonymous method or a lambda expression? -- Different awaitable methods -- See also -- Working with Task Parallel Library data flows -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- What are the configuration options available for TPL Data Flow blocks? -- How to link to one block to another for Target? -- See also -- 4. Enhancements to ASP.NET -- Introduction -- Understanding major performance boosters in ASP.NET web applications -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- How to configure the compilation of pages in ASP.NET websites -- What is unobtrusive validation -- Applying appSettings configuration key values -- DLL intern in ASP.NET servers -- See also -- How to work with statically-typed model binding in ASP.NET applications -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- ModelBinding with filter operations -- See also -- Introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 in ASP.NET applications -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- How to work with web workers in HTML5 -- Working with Socket using HTML5 -- Getting GeoLocation from the browser using HTML5 -- Working with local IndexDB storage in a browser using HTML5 -- Using application cache for a site in HTML5 -- Detecting online status of the browser using HTML5 -- Working with notifications in browsers using HTML5 -- See also -- Working with jQuery in Visual Studio with ASP.NET -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Extending the jQuery library -- See also -- Working with task-based asynchronous HttpHandlers and HttpModules -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- New enhancements to various Visual Studio editors -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- There's more… -- Configuration changes in ASP.NET 4.5.

See also -- 5. Enhancements to WPF -- Introduction -- Device Independent Pixel (DPI) -- Built-in support for graphics and animation -- Redefine styles and control template -- Resource-based approach for every control -- New property system and binding capabilities -- Getting started with WPF and its major enhancements in .NET 4.5 -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- What are Visual Trees and Logical Trees? -- What are RoutedEvents? -- What is DependencyObject? -- Building applications using MVVM pattern supported by WPF -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- What is DependencyProperty, and how to declare and use it? -- What are the attributes of Binding and use of Binding Expression? -- How to implement data validation blocks in MVVM? -- How to work with CollectionView using Live Shaping? -- Sorting -- Grouping -- Filtering -- Current Record Manipulation -- Live Shaping -- See also -- Using the Ribbon User Interface in WPF -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Special RibbonTooltip for Ribbon-based controls -- Specifying shortcut keys for ribbon controls -- How to use RibbonGallery inside the ribbon -- Using WeakEvent pattern in WPF -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- 6. Building Touch-sensitive Device Applications in Windows 8 -- Introduction -- Building your first Windows 8 style tiles application using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- How to deal with the look and feel of Windows 8 style tiles application using JavaScript and CSS -- How to enable animation within a Windows 8 style tiles application using WinJS -- How does the event life cycle work in WinJS -- Writing a library for WinJS -- How to do it… -- See also.

Building your first Windows 8 style tiles application using C# and XAML.