What is new in .NET Framework 4.5 & What’s new and expected in .NET Framework 4.5:
- Support for Windows Runtime
- Support for Metro Style Applications
- Support for Async Programming
- Garbage Collector Improvements
- Faster ASP.NET Startup
- Better Data Access Support
- WebSockets Support
- Workflow Support – BCL Support
differences in ASP.NET in these frameworks
Compare What’s New in ASP.NET 4 and Visual Web Developer and What’s New in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 Beta:
Asp.net 4.0
Web.config
File Refactoring- Extensible Output Caching
- Auto-Start Web Applications
- Permanently Redirecting a Page
- Shrinking Session State
- Expanding the Range of Allowable URLs
- Extensible Request Validation
- Object Caching and Object Caching Extensibility
- Extensible HTML, URL, and HTTP Header Encoding
- Performance Monitoring for Individual Applications in a Single Worker Process
- Multi-Targeting
- etc
And for Asp.net 4.5 there is also a long list of improvements:
- Asynchronously Reading and Writing HTTP Requests and Responses
- Improvements to
HttpRequest
handling - Asynchronously flushing a response
- Support for await and Task-Based Asynchronous Modules and Handlers
differences in C# also in these frameworks
Go Through C# 4.0 – New C# Features in the .NET Framework and What’s New for Visual C# in Visual Studio 11 Beta.
Edit:
The languages documentation for C# and VB breaking changes:
VB: Visual Basic Breaking Changes in Visual Studio 2012
C#: Visual C# Breaking Changes in Visual Studio 2012
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