C# 4, ASP.NET 4, and WPF, with Visual Studio 2010 Jump Start

This Wrox Blox is a value-packed resource to help experienced .NET developers learn the new .NET release. It is excerpted from the Wrox books: Professional C# 4 and .NET 4, Professional ASP.NET 4, and WPF Programmer’s Reference by Christian Nagel, Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, and Rod Stephens, and includes more than 100 print book pages drawn from these three key titles. It is an excellent resource to help .NET developers get up to speed fast on .NET 4, C# 4.0, ASP.NET 4, and WPF, providing all the information needed to program with the important new features, including: C# Dynamic Types and Parallel Tasks; ASP.NET Ajax, Chart Controls, MVC, and Object Caching; and key WPF principles as developers move from WinForms to WPF. In addition, it provides examples built with the native Visual Studio 2010 tools that developers are comfortable with.

Table of Contents

Part I: Professional C# 4 and .NET 4

Covariance and Contra-variance

Tuples

The Dynamic Type

Code Contracts

Tasks

Parallel Class

Cancellation Framework

Taskbar and Jump List

Part II: Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

Chart Server Control

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Extending

.NET 4’s New Object Caching Option

Historical Debugging with IntelliTrace

Debugging Multiple Threads

ASP.NET MVC

Using WCF Data Services

Creating Your First Service

Building an ASP.NET Web Package

Part III: WPF Programmer’s Reference

Code-behind Files

Example Code
Event Name Attribute

Resource

Styles and Property Trigger

Event Triggers and Animation

Templates

Skins

Printing Visual Objects

Printing Code-Generated Output

Data Binding

Transformations

Effects

Documents

Three-Dimensional Drawing