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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Chapter 2. Exploring the Top New Features of the CLR

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Creating a portable library

  • Controlling the timeout in regular expressions

  • Defining the culture for an application domain

  • Overriding the default reflection behavior

  • Using the new ZipArchive class

  • Understanding async and await in .NET 4.5

  • Using the new asynchronous file I/O operations

Introduction

.NET 4.5 brings many benefits, such as improvements in performance, compatibility, garbage collection, and new features in its structure to provide the overall scenarios it is targeted for, for example, Windows Store apps development.

One of its most important characteristics is that it is an in-place substitution of the .NET 4.0 and only runs on Windows Vista SP2 or later systems.

.NET 4.5 breathes asynchronous features and makes writing async code even easier. It also provides us with the Task Parallel Library (TPL) Dataflow Library to help us create parallel and concurrent applications.

Another very important addition is the portable libraries, which allow us to create managed assemblies that we can refer through different target applications and platforms, such as Windows 8, Windows Phone, Silverlight, and Xbox.

We couldn't avoid mentioning Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), which now has support for generic types, a convention-based programming model, and multiple scopes...

Creating a portable library

Most of us have often struggled and hacked our code to implement an assembly that we could use in different .NET target platforms. Portable libraries are here to help us to do exactly this.

Now there is an easy way to develop a portable assembly that works without modification in .NET Framework, Windows Store apps style, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and XBOX 360 applications.

The trick is that the Portable Class Library project supports a subset of assemblies from these platforms, providing us a Visual Studio template.

This recipe will show you how to implement a basic application and help you get familiar with Visual Studio 2012.

Getting ready

In order to use this recipe you should have Visual Studio 2012 installed. Note that you will need a Visual Studio 2012 SKU higher than Visual Studio Express for it to fully support portable library projects.

How to do it...

Here we will create a portable library and see how it works:

  1. First, open Visual Studio 2012 and create a new...

Controlling the timeout in regular expressions

.NET 4.5 gives us improved control on the resolution of regular expressions so we can react when they don't resolve on time. This is extremely useful if we don't control the regular expressions/patterns, such as the ones provided by the users.

A badly formed pattern can have bad performance due to excessive backtracking and this new feature is really a lifesaver.

How to do it...

Next we are going to control the timeout in the regular expression, where we will react if the operation takes more than 1 millisecond:

  1. Create a new Visual Studio project of type Console Application, named caRegexTimeout.

  2. Open the Program.cs file and add a using clause for using regular expressions:

    Using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

  3. Add the following method and call it from the Main function:

    private static void ExecuteRegexExpression() {
bool RegExIsMatch = false;
string testString = "One Tile to rule them all, One Tile to find them… ";
string RegExPattern = @"([a-z ]...

Defining the culture for an application domain

With .NET 4.5, we have in our hands a way of specifying the default culture for all of our application threads in a quick and efficient way.

How to do it...

We will now define the default culture for our application domain as follows:

  1. Create a new Visual Studio project of type Console Application named caCultureAppDomain.

  2. Open the Program.cs file and add the using clause for globalization:

    using System.Globalization;

  3. Next, add the following methods:

    static void DefineAppDomainCulture() {
String CultureString = "en-US";
DisplayCulture();
CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(CultureString);
CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(CultureString);
DisplayCulture();
Console.ReadLine();
}

static void DisplayCulture() {
Console.WriteLine("App Domain........: {0}", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Id);
Console.WriteLine("Default Culture...: {0}", CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture);...

Overriding the default reflection behavior

One interesting capability of .NET 4.5 is that we can customize our reflection context, overriding the default reflection behavior with the CustomReflectionContext class.

With it, we can control what properties and attributes are exposed by a class through reflection.

How to do it...

Here we will override the reflection behavior to provide additional attributes:

  1. Create a new Visual Studio project of type Console Application named caOverridingReflection.

  2. In the References folder of the project, in the Solution Explorer, add a reference to the System.Reflection.Context assembly.

  3. Open the Program.cs file and add a using clause for system.reflection.

    using System.Reflection;

  4. Next, add the SomeClass declaration:

    class SomeClass
{
    //Nothing here..
}

  5. Then add a method to visualize, through reflection, the attributes of a type:

    public static void ShowAttributes(Type t)
{
  foreach (Attribute a in t.GetCustomAttributes())
    {
      Console.WriteLine(a);
  ...

Using the new ZipArchive class

We have two new classes, ZipArchive and ZipArchiveEntry, which add the capability to create .zip archives to the .NET framework. This was possible previously, but with several limitations.

How to do it...

Next we will see how to use the ZipArchive class to create a Zip file and to extract it to a concrete location.

  1. Create a new Visual Studio project of type Console Application named caZipArchive.

  2. Add the System.IO.Compression and System.IO.Compression.Filesystem assemblies as references to the project.

  3. Open the Program.cs file and add the following using clauses:

    using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

  4. Next, add the following method:

    static void CreateZipFile() {

    String ZipPath= @"C:\PACKT\02-CLR\caZipArchive\test\";
    String ZipFilePath = ZipPath + "test.zip";
    String FileName01 = "OneTextDocument.txt";
    String FileName02 = "OtherTextDocument.txt";
    String FileToZip01 = ZipPath + FileName01;
    String FileToZip02 = ZipPath + FileName02;

using...

Understanding async and await in .NET 4.5

The new asynchronous capabilities of .NET 4.5 rely on the async and await modifiers. Basically we have two important points here:

  • The async modifier indicates to the compiler that a method or lambda expression is asynchronous—we call them async methods.

  • The await operator, which can only be used within an async method, is applied to a task to suspend execution of the method until the task is complete. Meanwhile, the control is returned to the caller of that method.

How to do it...

Here we will use the async and await features in a basic way to clearly understand them.

  1. Create a new Visual Studio project of type Console Application named caAsyncAwait.

  2. Add a reference to the System.Net.Http assembly.

  3. In the Program.cs file, add the following using clauses:

    using System.Net;
using System.IO;

  4. Next, add the following methods:

    Static async Task HttpTestAsync(String url) {
byte[] result = await GetURLContentsAsync(url);
Console.WriteLine("Received {0,8} bytes...

Using the new asynchronous file I/O operations

There are some brand new asynchronous methods for file operation I/O, which are clearly designed for providing resource-intensive work without blocking the main UI thread.

For I/O operations, we have some interesting methods such as ReadAsync, WriteAsync, CopyToAsync, FlushAsync, ReadLineAsync, and ReadToEndasync, which are implemented on stream classes and on classes that read and/or write to streams such as TextWriter or TextReader.

How to do it...

Next we will see a simple example that we can extrapolate to a majority of these methods with ease.

  1. Create a new Visual Studio project of type Console Application named caAsyncIO.

  2. Add a using clause for System.IO:

    using System.IO;

  3. Copy the following base method:

    Private async static void CopyFolderContents() {
String SourceFolder = @"C:\PACKT\02-CLR\caAsyncIO\source";
String DestinationFolder = @"C:\PACKT\02-CLR\caAsyncIO\destination";

Console.WriteLine("Going to copy {0} files..", Directory.EnumerateFiles...
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Key benefits

  • Designed for the fastest jump into .NET 4.5, with a clearly designed roadmap of progressive chapters and detailed examples.
  • A great and efficient way to get into .NET 4.5 and not only understand its features but clearly know how to use them, when, how and why.
  • Covers Windows 8 XAML development, .NET Core (with Async/Await & reflection improvements), EF Code First & Migrations, ASP.NET, WF, and WPF

Description

With about ten years since its first release, Microsoft's .NET Framework 4.5 is one of the most solid development technologies to create casual, business, or enterprise applications. It has evolved into a very stable framework and solid framework for developing applications, with a solid core, called the CLR (Common Language Runtime) Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 includes massive changes and enables modern application and UI development."Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook" aims to give you a run through the most exciting features of the latest version. You will experience all the flavors of .NET 4.5 hands on. The “How-to” recipes mix the right ingredients for a final taste of the most appetizing features and characteristics. The book is written in a way that enables you to dip in and out of the chapters.The book is full of practical code examples that are designed to clearly exemplify the different features and their applications in real-world development. All the chapters and recipes are progressive and based on the fresh features on .NET Framework 4.5.The book will begin by teaching you to build a modern UI application and improve it to make it Windows 8 Modern UI apps lifecycle model-compliant. You will create a portable library and throttle data source updating delays. Towards the end of the book, you will create you first Web API.

Who is this book for?

If you are a .NET developer and would like to learn the new features in .NET 4.5, then this book is just for you. Prior experience with .NET Framework would be useful, but not necessary."Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook" gives architects and project managers a high-level overview and clear understanding of what .NET 4.5 Framework provides and how it can be used.

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  • Overriding the default reflection context
  • Using Async and Await in .NET 4.5
  • Using the new asynchronous file I/O operations
  • Using the new HttpClient
  • Creating our first EF ‚ÄúCode First‚Äù application
  • Using EF Code First Migrations
  • Creating our first ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms application
  • Creating an asynchronous HTTP Module
  • Implementing Asynchronous Error handling with INotifyDataErrorInfo
  • Using the WeakEvent pattern with WeakEventManager
  • LiveShaping - Repositioning of data when it changes
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Data binding to static properties
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It's very amazing to read this book because it's focused in the new features of .Net 4.5. This book has great explanations, every chapter is full of code examples, and the best part is that it doesn't repeat things that you already know about the framework. In a quick time, as the book title said, you will have the guide and the knowledge you need to start taking the advantage of all the improvements that the new framework delivers. I think this book is a "must have" for all .net developers.
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Nice concise but extensive overview .NET 4.5 additions full of easy-to-understand, real-world code examples, covering so many the topics from language-level keywords through WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, EF to WF. Focuses on what is important in each area but contains inspiring hints at further opportunities that each feature opens up. Valuable starting points also for making side-trips to those seeking depths. I highly recommend it to any application developer well-versed in .NET, who now aspire to quickly embrace the new additions that version 4.5 of .NET brings.
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I have been working with .NET since the very first version and I had extremely high expectations for this book. I expected to see a fast path for developers to get up to speed with .NET framework 4.5 in easy understandable and entertaining fashion. This book is absolutely amazing and I enjoyed reading it. It is short but it covers all you need to know. It starts with the most modern scenarios for building Windows Store apps and provide a lap around all the new features provided in the framework. I particulary liked the chapter 8 dedicated to the Web API. This is certainly subjective view. In summary, I would highly recommend this book to any programmer who is serious about getting up to speed with .NET 4.5. This is not a reference book nor a deep dive into every single library. But it is exactly what it should be - a great quickstart book.
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Taking the complexity and scope of .NET 4.5 into consideration, I was quite surprised by how thin the book actually was. Even more so, after I've taken a closer look at the table of contents: the book covers a very broad spectrum of topics. The author really managed to convey a lot of information in a concise and useful way.It has to be said, though, that not all of the topics are covered equally well: some really do shine, while others could still be improved. I was very pleasantly surprised by the quick introduction to Windows Store apps. I don't think I've come across a better one in such a short form. I also liked very much the core CLR, WPF and Web API chapters. All of them are well worth reading. The only chapter I really can't give any praise, is the last one on WF. It's really difficult to follow without good prior knowledge, but once you have that knowledge it doesn't offer you much. The WF topics to dive deeper into, could definitely be selected better.In spite of that I can still recommend the book to anyone already having solid knowledge of .NET 4 and wanting to learn more about the new stuff in .NET 4.5. I'm pretty sure that even almost a year after the release .NET framework 4.5, most of the readers will still learn at least something new. I know that I haven't known about a couple of things before, although I've been using it regularly since the release. On the other hand, don't choose this book to start learning about .NET; you won't get much out of it.
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Jose Luis Latorre Millas is a Microsoft Silverlight MVP, Toastmaster's Competent Communicator, TechEd speaker, INETA speaker, STEP member, trainer, technical writer, and reviewer. He is deeply involved with the technical communities through his collaboration with INETA Europe, Barcelona Developers, and other communities and user groups. He recently co-founded the Zurich .NET Developers user group at Zurich, Switzerland, which can be found at http://ZurichDev.net. Jose Luis Latorre is strongly focused on XAML technologies such as Windows Store Apps, Windows Phone Apps, Silverlight, and WPF. He has written several articles on these topics, reviewed books, and worked with and given several talks over the last few years on these areas of knowledge. Jose Luis works as UI Team Lead developer at Roche Diagnostics, where he does his best to develop and improve diagnostic software and its interfaces, which will help to save lives.
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