Chapter 1. Introduction

These are exciting times to be a .NET developer, and Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010) and the .NET 4.0 Framework have brought a bewildering number of changes. But fear not! In this book I will be getting you up to speed on these enhancements, and also taking a brief look at some of the important out-of-band releases, such as ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, and WCF Data Services. There is some cool stuff in this release, and most of it is not that tricky (with the exception of variance and parallelization).