ASP.NET 4.5 ships as part of part of Visual Studio 2012 and contains many new and extended features. Joydip Kanjilal takes a look at the top 10 best features in ASP.NET 4.5 for developers.

Take advantage of Google's Protobuf-net to create services that are high performance. Protocol buffers from Google is a binary serialization format that is used for data communication. Protocol Buffer is a very efficient hypermedia type that can be used with RESTful services. Protobuf-net is a .NET implementation of Protocol Buffers that you can use to serialize your .NET objects seamlessly. This article takes a look at Protobuf Objects and how they can be used in .NET.