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Related posts: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 is here!  In terms of completeness and readiness for production coding, Beta 2 promises to be much better than Beta 1, and TPL is one component that delivers significant improvements over what was previously available.  To get you excited about it, this series of posts details...

The .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is now available! MSDN Subscribers can download it today, and it will be generally available for download on Wednesday.  More information is available at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx.  Additionally, one of the really exciting things about this Beta release is that it’s “go-...

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It’s fall, and that means conference season!  In November, members of the Parallel Computing Platform team will be descending upon both PDC09 in Los Angeles and TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin.  We’re extremely excited to see all of you there and to discuss the new support for parallel computing that’s coming in Visual Stud...

In a week, I’m going to be traveling through Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, speaking about parallel computing, Visual Studio 2010, and .NET 4, primarily at corporations during the day and at user groups in the evenings.If you’re in the area and interested, please do attend, and I look forward to meeting you!  A list of ev...

Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project areas can be found here. If you follow the steps in the walkthrough you will notice that Add C...

“What does Task.Wait do?” Simple question, right?  At a high-level, yes, the method achieves what its name implies, preventing the current thread from making forward progress past the call to Wait until the target Task has completed, one way or another.  If the Task ran to completion, Wait will return successfully.  If th...

Common operations like map and filter are available in parallelized form through PLINQ, though the names differ.  A map can be achieved with PLINQ’s Select operator, and a filter with PLINQ’s Where operator.For example, I could implement a ParallelMap operation that takes in one array and returns another as follows: public static...

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Firefox 3+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ support SVG rendering. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not support SVG natively and requires a plug-in. There a plug in from Adobe (although support was discontinued this y...