What is new in ASP.Net MVC 5

Summary : ASP.Net MVC 5 is a part of Dot.Net framework 4.5 that is releases with VS2013.  Key new feature includes

1. One ASP.Net, 
2. ASP.Net Identity for External Authentication like google, 
3. Enhance Async Controller, 
4. WEB API Ver 2,0, 
5. Support of EF 6, 
6. Attribute based routing, Bootstrap, 
7. OWIN and Katana for cloud enhance cloud support.

What is new in Dot.Net 4.5

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171868%28v=vs.110%29.aspx#tailored

Compatibility Enhancement

Since project files are same in both VS2011 and VS2010 so you can open Visual Studio 2010 projects in Visual Studio 11 and continue working from Visual Studio 2010 without any problems.

What is new in Dot.Net 2.0

1. Language Improvement 
1. Generics,
2. Anonymous delegates

What is new in Dot.Net 3.0

1. New Features and Frameworks 
1. WCF
2. WPF
3. WF
4. Card Space
2. Language Improvements
1. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) CTP,
2. Lambda expressions (an evolved anonymous delegate).
3. Inline Object Initialization
4. Anonymous Types
5. Extension method
6. Expression tree

What is new in Dot.Net 3.5

1. ASP.NET AJAX
1. In ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX was used as an extension to it. You had to download the extensions and install it. However in ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX is integrated into the .NET Framework, thereby making the process of building cool user interfaces easier and intuitive.

What is new in Dot.Net 4.0

1. Framework Features
1. Client Profile (Lite Version of Framework)
1. The .NET Framework 4 Client Profile is a subset of the .NET Framework 4 that is optimized for client applications. 
2. Note: - I do not see of much value it just saves around 100 MB of disk space, for me it more overheads to verify on two different platform. I would always suggest to use full version of framework.

MS SQL Server 2012 RTM Released (What is New)

Key features of this release are 
Sequence Object,Column Store, Column Store Index, File Tables , Property search ,BISM, DSQ, SSDT, Proximity Search, Semantic Search, Active Secondaries,Connection Director and DB Recovery Advisory .

This page consolidate the Bullets point for new features added to SQL Server 2012

What is Node JS

Node.Js Defined : Node.Js is a new java like scripting framework targeted for server side scripting , written on the top of  Google V8 virtual machine (that is actually JVM for this framework also called Chrome's JavaScript runtime). It support all existing feature of Java script.

What is ASP.Net Web API

ASP.Net Web APIs are extension to existing ASP.Net  capabilities, released as subset of MVC4 that implements a subset of OData specification to ASP.Net  with the intention of facilitating RESTFull application development using ASP.Net and MVC.

What is visual Studio LightSwitch

What is visual Studio LightSwitch can be viewed as whole new version of MSAccess ,written on the top of Visual Studio 2011 and it has built in support of for several data source including cloud based. 

What is New in HTML 5

 

HTML 5 is new emerging web standard (still under development) that is primarily targeted to eliminate the requirement of third party browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash to play various graphics and media content rendering and play back

VS 2012 RC Key Notes (What is new in VS2012 RC, Feature Summary)

Visual Studio 2012 RC (Earlier known as Visual Studio 2011 beta)  has been released on 31 may 2012. It has lot of cool productivity feature and also several new language and framework changes that will new way of writing very responsive asynchronous application.

This release have several new enhancement based on community feedback mainly branding , UI and performance, for specific details about What is new in Visual Studio 2012 RC check out jasonz`s blog.

Rest of core feature summary are consolidated below.

What is Metro Style App

Definition : Metro Style is a UI development guidelines that is especially designed for next generation Internet rich ,touch oriented application.