What's New in .NET 4.0 Windows XP, Vista, or 7 with a full installation of Visual Studio 2010 (latest release) 3 1 7 2 code Our What's New in .NET 4.0 training class teaches the new features of Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4.0, C# 4.0, and VB.NET 4.0. Students also learn the new additions to the Base Class Libraries (BCL), WPF, WCF, and WF, and explore the new Entity Framework (EF). NOTE: This course can be taught in VB and/or C#. At least 2GB RAM Windows XP, Vista, or 7 with a full installation of Visual Studio 2010 (latest release) Prior, extensive development with C# or VB.NET in a Visual Studio 2005 or later environment Prior knowledge of WPF, .NET 4.0 Learn to take advantage of the new features in Visual Studio 2010 Investigate the enhancements made to the C# and VB.NET languages Work with the new features of the BCLBase Class Libraries (BCL), WPF, ASP.NET, Entity Framework (EF), WCF, and WF Explore the new parallel programming facilities in .NET 4.0 Language Enhancements Named and Optional Parameters New Features in Visual Basic Co- and Contravariance Dynamic Typing and Late Binding Easier COM Interoperability F# Overview Visual Studio 2010 General Improvements Improved Multitargeting Intellisense Enhancements Unit Testing and TDD Visual Studio Extensibility CLR and BCL Changes Improved Client Profile In-Process Side-by-Side Execution Garbage Collection Security New and Modified BCL Types Network Class Libraries (NCLs) Deprecated APIs Code Contracts Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Globalization Parallel Programming Overview of Parallelization Task Parallel Library (TPL) Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) Coordination Data Structures (CDS) Threading Enhancements New Debugging Tools Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) IDE Enhancements New Controls Binding Changes Text-Rendering Improvements ASP.NET New Project Templates IDE Changes Code Snippets Deployment Improvements URL Routing Accessibility and Standards Control Enhancements Microsoft AJAX Library jQuery Integration ASP.NET MVC 2 Silverlight Offline Applications Deep Linking and Browser History Printing Entity Framework EF and LINQ to SQL EF 1.0 Criticisms EDM Designer Changes Lazy Loading Model First Generation Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) New Configuration Defaults REST Friendly URLs Router Service WS-Discovery WCF Data Services Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) New Workflow Designer Flowchart Workflow WCF Workflow Service Applications New Activities Windows Azure Overview Deployment .NET 4 Advanced Topics publisher