Appendix B. .NET 4.5 – Deployment Risks and Issues
In this appendix, I will expose some deployment risks and issues that might occur with .NET 4.5.
Introduction
As mentioned in Chapter 2, Exploring the Top New Features of the CLR, .NET 4.5 is an in-place replacement for .NET 4.0, which only runs on Windows Vista SP2 or later systems.
This means that when .NET 4.5 is installed, it replaces the .NET 4.0 assemblies; even though .NET 4.5 has very high compatibility with .NET 4.0 scenarios, it might behave differently.
This comes along with the possibility that one of the deployment targets might not be supported by .NET 4.5, such as Windows XP.
Along the same lines, we can install Visual Studio 2012 in our machine along with Visual Studio 2010; they can ...
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