Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

Microsoft is increasing its cadence with software releases. Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 6.0 make improvements on the 2015 releases, and it's expected that many developers who held out on upgrading will go directly to Visual Studio 2015. The improvements to VS for 2015 are significant enough that Professional C# 6.0 titles need to be updated to accommodate new and updated template, deployment, ASP.NET, and more. Updates include:

Reflection - updates for .NET 5.0 GC, different behaviors

Visual Studio 2015 - new UI, new templates, editor enhancements

Deployment - Windows 8.1 deployment updates

Diagnostics - event log updates

Threads, Tasks, and Synchronization - data flow

Networking - HttpClient (instead of WebClient)

Localization - update Windows 8.1 localization

Windows Runtime - Windows Runtime 2.0, updates

ADO.NET Entity Framework - Entity Framework 6.0, get rid of EntityObject, add Migrations...

Windows Store Apps - Windows 8.1

ASP.NET Core - new Visual Studio templates

ASP.NET Web Forms - new Visual Studio templates

ASP.NET MVC - move Web API to a separate chapter, new Visual Studio templates

ASP.NET Web API - replaces WCF Data Services, partly from the ASP.NET MVC chapter, more features like Odata

Windows Workflow Foundation - add Workflow Manager 1.0

About the author

Christian Nagel is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio and Development Technologies, software architect, and veteran developer who has been building solutions with .NET technologies since 2000. A prolific author of .NET books, he also speaks at international conferences including TechEd and Tech Days, and supports .NET user groups. Christian is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Professional Developer for Universal Windows apps and ASP.NET.

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