February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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4.15. Summary
The changes to the CLR in this release have three main aims:
Improving performance
Offering better compatibility/control for applications built in previous versions of the .NET Framework
Introducing functionality necessary for enhancements such as the DLR and parallelization (refer to Chapter 3).
The great news is that many of the low-level changes will make your applications run more quickly with no input required from you! A simplified security model is welcome, and it is good to see the addition of 64-bit support and APIs for working with some of the new Windows 7 features. A number of welcome tweaks have also been made to the BCL and NCL. Finally, we looked briefly at code contracts: a great method inspired outside of .NET to ...