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