About This Release of Unity

This section contains the following topics that will help you to understand this release of Unity and help you understand how to use it alongside earlier versions or migrate your applications to this version. This section includes the following topics:

• Changes in This Release
• Target Audience and System Requirements
• Migration and Side-by-Side Execution
• Related patterns & practices Links
• Copyright and Terms of Use

How to Use This Guidance

The following table shows where you can look to find more information about specific topics covered by this guidance.

If you want to find out about...	Read this section...
What's new in this release of Unity	Changes in This Release
What you can do with Unity	What Does Unity Do?
When you should choose to use Unity	When Should I Use Unity?
How to configure Unity	Configuring Unity
How to use Unity in your applications	Using Unity in Applications
How to resolve objects in Unity	Resolving Objects
How to use injection for methods and properties	Using Injection Attributes
How to use interception	Using Interception in Applications
How to use interception and create policies	Using Interception and Policy Injection
How to use container hierarchies	Using Container Hierarchies
Issues with circular references when using Unity	Circular References with Dependency Injection
How to deploy Unity	Deployment and Operations
The design of Unity	Design of Unity
How to extend and modify Unity	Extending and Modifying Unity
Additional guidance and information	The Community Web Site on CodePlex

More Information

For related information, see the following guidance:

• The Unity Community Web Site on CodePlex
• Loosen Up - Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps by James Kovacs in MSDN Magazine
• Design Patterns: Dependency Injection by Griffin Caprio in MSDN Magazine
• Aspect-Oriented Programming Enables Better Code Encapsulation and Reuse by Dharma Shukla, Simon Fell, and Chris Sells in MSDN Magazine
• Aspect-Oriented Programming by Matthew Deiters on MSDN
• Create a Custom Marshaling Implementation Using .NET Remoting and COM Interop by Jim Sievert in MSDN Magazine
• The EFx Architectural-Guidance Software Factory by Jezz Santos on MSDN