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The goal of PLINQ is to execute computationally intensive LINQ to Objects queries efficiently by splitting up the work across multiple cores on multi-core machines. However, not all queries are equally appropriate for parallelism.Usually, the best way to use PLINQ is to write short, simple queries with an expensive delegate. This is one example of ...

Differences between Web Site Projects (WSP) and Web Application Projects (WAP) are highlighted in blogs such as this one. Based on that, if you feel a WAP would be better for your particular needs than a WSP, but have already created a WSP, you may be asking yourself, “Can I convert my WSP into a WAP, without starting from scratch?”. This posting e...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will bring full support for developing applications in Silverlight 3.  There’s a few things that have changed since VS2010 Beta 1, and we hope you enjoy the new beta release! Silverlight 2 is no longer supported – long live Silverlight 3 Now that Silverlight 3 has released (including a GDR; the latest version is cur...

Related posts: Last week, we talked about how TPL adopted a new, better cancellation model.  Today, we’ll cover a change that makes Tasks Detached by Default, some ContinueWhenAll/Any Refactoring, and the handy UnobservedTaskException event.Tasks are Detached by DefaultIn Beta 2, we have changed an important default.  Tasks are now...

If you’re going to PDC this year, we have four great talks on parallelism coming you’re way and, if you’re not, may we suggest you sign up?We don’t have the exact dates of the talks yet (we’ll let you know when we do) but here are the talks you won’t want to miss!Patterns of Parallel Programming: A Tutorial on Fu...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective, all ...

Dev10 Beta2 DB Deployment property page has some changes from Beta1.  Please provide your valuable feedback for us to make it better for you.  Thanks. 1. Tab page name changed from “Deploy/SQL” To “Deploy SQL” 2. Customer can use “Import from Web.config” button to import all the connection strings defined in root web.config to the da...

If by any chance you are not seeing intellisense in your JavaScript or HTML after installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 you might be running into a known bug that we can show you how to fix. The bug is related to user settings which we don’t remove when Beta 1 is uninstalled. One particular setting under HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio10.0HTML Ed...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these issues...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has officially shipped! If you haven’t already, download a copy from here. What New with Visual Studio If you are new to Visual Studio 2010 please check out all our previous blogs to get a understanding of all the changes we made for Beta 1 including this intro blog on beta 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive...