Lap around .net 4

Editor's Notes

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2. Estimated Time: 3 minutesIn order to enable our ability to easily create dynamic UI and place the rendering process on the client, we need a way to define templates of markup that represent the UI we wish to create, and allow the runtime to instantiate them for us. This alleviates the need to write a bunch of DOM code or depend on server-rendering.If you’ve used WebForms before, you’re already familiar with the approach many of its server controls take. You have access to a set of properties that allow you to define arbitrary templates of content, complete with HTML, server controls, and data binding expressions. This model makes it very easy to create dynamic UI that is rendered server-side [Advance Animation].ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 introduces the ability to define templates as well, but purely client-side. Now you can create the HTML markup you want to use for representing your template, complete with HTML and data binding expressions. In this example, we’ve created an unordered list template whose content is a list item whose content is the value of the Name property of the JSON object that is bound to it. The data binding expression resembles that of WPF.
3. Estimated Time: 3 minutesIn order to enable our ability to easily create dynamic UI and place the rendering process on the client, we need a way to define templates of markup that represent the UI we wish to create, and allow the runtime to instantiate them for us. This alleviates the need to write a bunch of DOM code or depend on server-rendering.If you’ve used WebForms before, you’re already familiar with the approach many of its server controls take. You have access to a set of properties that allow you to define arbitrary templates of content, complete with HTML, server controls, and data binding expressions. This model makes it very easy to create dynamic UI that is rendered server-side [Advance Animation].ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 introduces the ability to define templates as well, but purely client-side. Now you can create the HTML markup you want to use for representing your template, complete with HTML and data binding expressions. In this example, we’ve created an unordered list template whose content is a list item whose content is the value of the Name property of the JSON object that is bound to it. The data binding expression resembles that of WPF.
4. Estimated Time: 2 minutesThe DataContext control essentially provides a connection between your client application and the server. The server component can be represented by any JSON compatible service, such as ASMX, WCF, and ADO.NET Data Services.The DataContext handles requesting data from the server [Advance Animation], as well as retrieving the returned JSON data. On the client, any JSON objects that were retrieved via a DataContext are participating in change tracking [Advance Animation]. This means that you can go about making any modifications you need, and can then simply save changes back to the server via the DataContext[Advance Animation] without having to worry about determining what changes have occurred.
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7. MESSAGING:New Library = just an assembly, a normal .dll, used by any .NET languageDynamically Composed = composition takes place at runtime and composition behavior differs depending on how it is configured.
8. MESSAGING:New Library = just an assembly, a normal .dll, used by any .NET languageDynamically Composed = composition takes place at runtime and composition behavior differs depending on how it is configured.
9. MESSAGING:Due to it’s declarative-based and discovery-enabled approach, MEF becomes very powerful to use in an application where it is being used to put together a bunch of potentially unknown parts into a working application. You might also think about this as a 3rd party extending your application. When you are compiling your application (long before you ship), you have absolutely no idea on what sorts of extensions might be built for your application into the future. That’s the power of extensible applications, they can be extended and used in ways the original authors perhaps didn’t expect, or didn’t have the time to do themselves. If you are concerned strictly with the “known” part of the equation (composing different software entities together that are all known at compile time), there are other solutions that are available today that are very powerful for this scenario: namely IoC containers (IoC = Inversion of Control). The Managed Extensibility Framework was designed primarily with the unknown aspect of extension in mind.
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12. MESSAGING:Today, concurrency usually has to be done by the brightest developers in a business. The problem with this is that the brightest developers are then being consumed by concurrency minutia rather than being able to be focused on core business problems and helping the business’s bottom line. By providing new libraries and tools that make it easy to write parallel code, we hope to allow the best and brightest developers focus on the business problems at hand. This in turn enables other developers to be able to address concurrency and parallelism.This is the long term goal of Microsoft with the Parallel Computing Initiative. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is merely the first step being taken in this direction.
13. MESSAGING:Today, concurrency usually has to be done by the brightest developers in a business. The problem with this is that the brightest developers are then being consumed by concurrency minutia rather than being able to be focused on core business problems and helping the business’s bottom line. By providing new libraries and tools that make it easy to write parallel code, we hope to allow the best and brightest developers focus on the business problems at hand. This in turn enables other developers to be able to address concurrency and parallelism.This is the long term goal of Microsoft with the Parallel Computing Initiative. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is merely the first step being taken in this direction.
14. MESSAGING:PLINQ is a technology that allows developers to _easily_ leveragemanycore. The great thing about PLINQ is that if you are using LINQ-to-objects, there is a very minimal impact to your code in order for it to use PLINQ. All it takes to use PLINQ is adding “.AsParallel()” to your query. This will turn the query into a PLINQ query and will use the PLINQ execution engine when executed.One small change, and your code now takes advantage of all the hardware available to you.NOTES:AsParallel() works by returning an IParallelEnumerable so every subsequent query operator works against the new IParallelEnumerable rather than the normal IEnumerable. See the hands-on lab for Parallel Extensions for more details.
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17. MESSAGING:There is a good reason why the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) exists. The problem is that, today, dynamically-typed languages like Python and Ruby can’t easily run directly on top of the CLR as the CLR is primarily designed for statically-typed languages. By creating the DLR, we help plug that hole and allow dynamically-typed languages to run on top of the CLR (by working through the DLR).
18. MESSAGING:The DLR provides core services that are necessary for dynamically-typed languages to work on the CLRThe DLR also provides other services that can be used by statically-typed languages as well to achieve more dynamic behavior:Expression Trees (including Statements)Dynamic DispatchCall Site Caching
19. MESSAGING:The power of the DLR is that there are many binders for the DLR. Yes, we can interop with dynamic languages like Python and Ruby like we expect to. However, perhaps even more importantly, there are binders available for .NET, Silverlight, and Office. This allows us to interact between these platforms in very powerful ways that we were unable to currently.
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21. DynamicInterop from ManagedLanguages Ten-In-One
22. MESSAGING:As long as we stay in our statically-typed world, interacting with objects is a pleasant and intuitive experience. However, as soon as you step out of that boundary and have to start using reflection, your code becomes much less elegant, harder to read, and harder to maintain. Using ScriptObject in the DLR makes this a bit easier as it provides some direct method calls to invoke methods with specific parameters. And while this is an improvement, it’s still a departure from the way we are used to interacting with objects.Using the new dynamic keyword in C# 4, we can call the .Add method above exactly as it were statically typed like in our first code snippet. In this case, the calc object is statically typed to be dynamic (yes, that’s true). Once we have a dynamic object references, we can dynamically invoke methods, do dynamic conversion, etc.
23. MESSAGING:Office has thousands of APIs for addins exposed through COM. But COM was designed for native code. Interop Assemblies help “translate” between managed and native code by containing all the marshalling data necessary to make communication possible.
24. MESSAGING:Let’s look at Office as an example. Add-ins in Excel, for instance, may very well need to talk to each other -> Because they have to talk to each other, they have to be using the same types for Excel -> Because of the way the type system works in the CLR, these types must also be in the same assembly -> So, the assembly is required to be in a common location (e.g. the GAC) in order for the add-ins to function properly.Well, Office currently does not require the .NET Framework to be installed on a machine. If a machine doesn’t have .NET installed, there’s no GAC, and hence nothing to deploy the PIA into. Herein lies the problem. Even if an add-in is only using a single function, enum, etc. from the interop assembly, the add-in must deploy the entire PIA along with itself. Office PIA is around 10-20mb, it’s HUGE. So you might have a 100k add-in “bringing along” a 20mb PIA.
25. MESSAGING:There are two primary things that enable PIAs to be buried, forever, never to rise again. Compiler enhancements (this embedding works down to the method level even, so even a full interface is not required).Runtime enhancementsEven though they are in different assembliesEven though they may have different subsetsHence, type equivalence allows two interfaces, enums, delegates and plain-old-data-structures to mark themselves as equivalent with each other.
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28. MESSAGING:Side X Side releases solve app compat issueCOM objects and other addins for different layers of the same cake can easily live together on the same runtimeHighly compatible – but only certain kinds of functionality can be added
29. MESSAGING:Run both 2.0-based and 4.0-based CLR in the same processOld components use old CLRNew components use new CLR Configuration file and hosting APIs give you fine-grained control
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