Bing.com analyzes .NET 4.5

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/06/07/bing-com-runs-on-windows-server-2012.aspx

The link above will take you to a blog post from Windows Server team. BIng.com recently migrated to Windows Server 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5. I like the way they use performance counters to monitor their application. The Event Tracing for Windows mechanism also looks promising.

The runtime improvements in .NET 4.5 can be found here: link

Finally .NET boots out Windows XP

.NET 4.0 required XP with SP3 and now .NET 4.5 doesn’t support it at all.
So it’s build once and run only on last two released operating systems - Vista and Win 7 :-)

ASP.NET MVC Certification

So finally we have a certification on ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft recently released this exam 70-486: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-486

I plan to clear it by December 2012 and now there is second shot offer too from Prometric. Here is what I am watching to refresh things a little bit - http://www.asp.net/mvc/pluralsight

Second shot link - http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/secondshot.aspx