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Quick Overview of LINQ Aggregations In order to explain the issues we encounter when parallelizing aggregations in PLINQ, let's first take a quick look at how aggregations work in LINQ.Aggregation is an operation that iterates over a sequence of input elements, maintaining an accumulator that contains the intermediate result. At each step, a reduct...

Web server settings, which are accessible inside Web Application Projects (WAPs) property pages (Web section)  allow you to specify settings associated to to Visual Studio Development Server or IIS.  Many a times in a team development environment it is preferred that these settings are shared across the teams providing consistency; at the...

Sometimes very simple additions to an API or implementation make me happy.  One such nicety in the CTP of PLINQ is the implementation of ToString on the concrete types that represent query operators.  These implementations provide a textual representation of the query structure, which can be very nice for debugging purposes. Consider...