• GC, JIT
• C#
• Coherent Framework
• XSP….ASP+…ASP.NET!
• WinForms

• Mobile ASP.NET controls
• Built-in support for ODBC and Oracle databases.
• IPv6 support.

• ASP.NET for the Masses
  ○ Application Building Blocks
    § Parts, Authentication, Role Management, etc
  ○ Visual Web Developer
• Client Development
• ClickOnce!

• Windows CardSpace - Digital identity interface.
• Windows Presentation Foundation : WPF
  ○ Vector Graphics, Media and UI
  ○ Enters the age of UX
• Windows Communication Foundation : WCF
  ○ Unified messaging model
• Windows Workflow Foundation : WF
  ○ Coordinating work with durable applications

• Linq
• Expression Trees and Lamda Methods
• Extension Methods
• Paging Support for ADO.NET
• Managed Wrappers for WMI and AD
• Enhancements to WCF and WF
• System.CodeDom namespace
• ASP.NET AJAX
• WCF/WF
  ○ REST Services
  ○ Workflow Services
• Client
  ○ Sync
  ○ Client app services

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ADO.NET
 ○ Entity Framework
 ○ Data Services (Astoria)
• WCF
 ○ AtomPub ServiceDocuments
• Client
 ○ Client Profile
 ○ Performance
   § Working set and startup time
• Silverlight 2
 ○ RTM end of 2008
 ○ Brings power of .NET to the web client
 ○ Media and RIA .NET platform

• Base Class Library Improvements
 ○ Managed Extensibility Framework
 ○ More Core Data Structures
 ○ I/O Improvements
• Parallel Computing
 ○ Task Parallel Library
 ○ Parallel Linq (PLINQ)
 ○ Coordination Data Structures (CDS)
• Client
 ○ WPF
  § Client Profile
  § Business Focused Controls
  § Win7 Advances (Multi-touch, etc)
 ○ ADO.NET
  § Entity Framework v2
    □ Code-First Development
    □ TDD Support
    □ Foreign-Key Support
 ○ ASP.NET
  § ASP.NET Dynamic Data Improvements
  § ASP.NET MVC
  § ASP.NET Dynamic Data for MVC
  § Extensible Caching Framework
 ○ WF & WCF
  § Fully Declarative Services
  § Workflow Enhancements
   □ New flowchart modeling
   □ Workflow Rules Integration
   □ … much more…
  § WCF Enhancements
   □ Durable Duplex
   □ WS-Discovery & UDP Channel
   □ In-Process Channel
  § RIA (Silverlight)
   □ Simplified N-tier development
   □ Business-focused framework

public class OrderProfile {  
    public OrderProfile() {
        CreateMap<Order, OrderIndexModel>();
        CreateMap<Order, OrderEditModel>();
        CreateMap<Order, OrderCreateModel>();
    }
}

[AutoMap(typeof(Order))]
public class OrderIndexModel {  
    // members
}

[AutoMap(typeof(Order))]
public class OrderEditModel {  
    // members
}

[AutoMap(typeof(Order))]
public class OrderCreateModel {  
    // members
}

Microsoft's release notes highlights for Preview 3 include:

• Visual Studio now offers .NET Framework 4.7.2 development tools to supported platforms with 4.7.2 runtime included.
• We improved performance during project unload/reload and branch switching.
• With added support for Azure Functions, you now have a new target host in the Configure Continuous Delivery to Azure dialog.
• Git and TFS status now updates properly for external file changes in .NET Core projects.
• We added new productivity features, such as code cleanup, invert-if refactoring, Go to Enclosing Block, Multi-Caret support, and new keyboard profiles.
• C++ enhancements include Template IntelliSense, convert macro to constexpr lightbulbs, and experimental in-editor code analysis squiggles.
• You can now use cross-language debugging with Python 3.7.0rc1.
• Performance Profiling now offers the ability to pause/resume data collection and adds a new .NET Object Allocation Tracking tool.
• We included improvements for Android incremental builds in the Xamarinsupport for Xcode 9.4.
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