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Visualizing Orcas SP1

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Patrick Smacchia has done some analysis on SP1 using the NDepend tool to compare different versions of assemblies. This is an interesting way to understand the large, standalone changes that we did, such as the new syndication features, but there's no easy way to distinguish whether individual changes in methods are due to fixing bugs, improving performance, or adding new features. For example, some of the serialization changes are easy to spot because they touch many methods with distinguishing names while other changes are more subtle. The work on performance is almost invisible unless you know where to look.

If there's interest, I may try to put together a list of notable WCF changes for SP1 in a few days that goes into more detail than the release announcement did.

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  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2008
    I am interested in this Nick.  I am working on a Fall presentation to market around to user groups over the changes to WCF in SP1.  A more details look inside would help me out for this and give me a greater understanding.

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2008
    I'd be very interested in seeing a list of notable changes.

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2008
    Would be great to have bulletpoints with references to dig deeper ...

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2008
    What would be REALLY cool would be a detailed look at the whole nine yards (not just WCF). There have already been some questions around here with regard to exactly what may have changed in the Fx 3.5 SP1 WPF runtimes to enhance load-time performance (and how might it effect our existing WPF apps).

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2008
    I found a link: http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/08/13/net-3-5-sp1-changes-overview.aspx Don't know the authenticity yet, but it was up on Brad Abram's blog too.