diff --git a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/DemoTests.cs b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/DemoTests.cs
index aeaadfb2..b296ed03 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/DemoTests.cs
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/DemoTests.cs
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ using Newtonsoft.Json.Converters;
 using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
 using Newtonsoft.Json.Schema;
 using Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization;
+#if !(NET20 || NET35 || NET40)
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+#endif
 #if DNXCORE50
 using Xunit;
 using Test = Xunit.FactAttribute;
@@ -606,6 +609,29 @@ namespace Newtonsoft.Json.Tests
             Assert.AreEqual(4, value.Count);
         }
 #endif
+
+#if !(NET20 || NET35 || NET40 || PORTABLE || DNXCORE50)
+        [Test]
+        public async Task AsyncDemo()
+        {
+            JArray largeJson;
+
+            // read asynchronously from a file
+            using (TextReader textReader = new StreamReader(new FileStream(@"large.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read, 4096, true)))
+            {
+                largeJson = await JArray.LoadAsync(new JsonTextReader(textReader));
+            }
+
+            JToken user = largeJson.SelectToken("$[?(@.name == 'Woodard Caldwell')]");
+            user["isActive"] = false;
+
+            // write asynchronously to a file
+            using (TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(new FileStream(@"large.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Write, 4096, true)))
+            {
+                await largeJson.WriteToAsync(new JsonTextWriter(textWriter));
+            }
+        }
+#endif
     }
 
 #if !(NET20 || NET35 || NET40 || PORTABLE || DNXCORE50)
diff --git a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/ExceptionTests.cs b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/ExceptionTests.cs
index 04813f9f..a028afde 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/ExceptionTests.cs
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/ExceptionTests.cs
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 #endregion
 
 using System;
+using System.IO;
+#if !(PORTABLE || DNXCORE50)
+using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
+#endif
 using Newtonsoft.Json.Schema;
 #if DNXCORE50
 using Xunit;
@@ -100,5 +104,18 @@ namespace Newtonsoft.Json.Tests
             Assert.AreEqual("Inner!", exception.InnerException.Message);
         }
 #pragma warning restore 618
+
+#if !(PORTABLE || DNXCORE50)
+        [Test]
+        public void BinarySerializeException()
+        {
+            JsonReaderException exception = new JsonReaderException("message!");
+            using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
+            {
+                var binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
+                binaryFormatter.Serialize(memoryStream, exception);
+            }
+        }
+#endif
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
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index ae243aab..f3fca574 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Net20.csproj
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Net20.csproj
@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@
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index bf330dd6..ff0dbb7a 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Net35.csproj
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diff --git a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Net40.csproj b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Net40.csproj
index 6fdfb1d8..74c368ba 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Net40.csproj
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Net40.csproj
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
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+    <DefineConstants>NET40;HAVE_ADO_NET;HAVE_APP_DOMAIN;HAVE_BIG_INTEGER;HAVE_BINARY_FORMATTER;HAVE_BINARY_SERIALIZATION;HAVE_BINARY_EXCEPTION_SERIALIZATION;HAVE_CAS;HAVE_CHAR_TO_STRING_WITH_CULTURE;HAVE_CHAR_TO_LOWER_WITH_CULTURE;HAVE_COM_ATTRIBUTES;HAVE_COMPONENT_MODEL;HAVE_CONCURRENT_COLLECTIONS;HAVE_COVARIANT_GENERICS;HAVE_DATA_CONTRACTS;HAVE_DATE_TIME_OFFSET;HAVE_DB_NULL_TYPE_CODE;HAVE_DYNAMIC;HAVE_EMPTY_TYPES;HAVE_ENTITY_FRAMEWORK;HAVE_EXPRESSIONS;HAVE_FSHARP_TYPES;HAVE_FULL_REFLECTION;HAVE_GUID_TRY_PARSE;HAVE_HASH_SET;HAVE_ICLONEABLE;HAVE_ICONVERTIBLE;HAVE_IGNORE_DATA_MEMBER_ATTRIBUTE;HAVE_INOTIFY_COLLECTION_CHANGED;HAVE_INOTIFY_PROPERTY_CHANGING;HAVE_ISET;HAVE_LINQ;HAVE_MEMORY_BARRIER;HAVE_NON_SERIALIZED_ATTRIBUTE;HAVE_REFLECTION_EMIT;HAVE_SECURITY_SAFE_CRITICAL_ATTRIBUTE;HAVE_SERIALIZATION_BINDER_BIND_TO_NAME;HAVE_STREAM_READER_WRITER_CLOSE;HAVE_STRING_JOIN_WITH_ENUMERABLE;HAVE_TIME_SPAN_PARSE_WITH_CULTURE;HAVE_TIME_SPAN_TO_STRING_WITH_CULTURE;HAVE_TIME_ZONE_INFO;HAVE_TRACE_WRITER;HAVE_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR;HAVE_UNICODE_SURROGATE_DETECTION;HAVE_VARIANT_TYPE_PARAMETERS;HAVE_VERSION_TRY_PARSE;HAVE_XLINQ;HAVE_XML_DOCUMENT;HAVE_XML_DOCUMENT_TYPE</DefineConstants>
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diff --git a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Portable.csproj b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Portable.csproj
index 73ca82e5..8d08c8ca 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Portable.csproj
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.Portable.csproj
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index 71f35f1f..249f5a2e 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.csproj
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.csproj
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