subject: What Is The Verdict From .net Programmers On .net Framework 4.5? [print this page] Opinions, articles and blogs are floating around in the virtual world especially among the community of .Net developers and everyone seems to be talking or rather writing about .Net Framework 4.5. So I thought another article to join the bandwagon wouldn"t make much of a difference, however, the thought process of this article is definitely different. It is different because I am not interested in simply listing out the features but what I"m interested is in knowing how interested are .Net programmers about .Net framework 4.5. Are they excited about it? Are they looking at functionalities and thinking of ways how they can innovative something new out of it? Do the .Net programmers feel that the different technological advancements of .Net framework will benefit them vastly with their coding and executing a particular project?
All this and much more is what I"m intrigued about and I have plenty of valid reasons to be so considering I"m first a .Net programmer and therefore both my personal and professional interests lie in it. So, here"s my take, which is an opinion on my behalf and not on the complete .Net development community, however, I have spoken to couple of them to get an idea of what .Net framework 4.5 has in store for .Net programmers.
Statistics show that .Net programmers have definitely shown a keen interest in the adoption of .Net Framework 4.5 both on the server as well as on the client side. There has been a rise in the number of .Net programmers that are downloading the redistributable downloads. So this is definitely a good sign and shows that .Net programmers are definitely interested in giving .Net framework 4.5 a try.
.Net programmers have been using .Net framework to develop both client and server side apps that were extremely large and complex. Undoubtedly, large apps would use up more resources and among which memory is one of the major resources. Large scale app .Net developers were looking for changes in the garbage collection and this are what .Net framework 4.5 offers. It offers improvised garbage collection functionality. Garbage collection typically occurs when the system has low physical memory or when the allocated objects that is using the memory crosses the acceptable threshold. .Net programmers can expect better performance out of .Net Framework 4.5 because it offers background garbage collection for servers. When .Net developers will try to utilize server garbage collection, the background garbage collection automatically gets activated.
.Net programmers also gain benefit form the feature Restart Manager as part of the .Net framework 4.5. This particular feature helps in preventing system restarts whenever it is needed during installation. .Net programmers also find another ally in .Net framework 4.5 and that is the support for arrays is any day larger than 2 gigabytes on 64-bit platforms. These are just some of the most important functionalities that have surely impressed .Net developers. In fact some of the loopholes that .Net developers wanted the company to solve have been successfully done in this latest version of .Net framework. Besides, what I think of .Net framework 4.5, I have found out that many .Net programmers that I know are also contented with .Net framework 4.5.
