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Nov 21, 2009
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PDC09 Parallelism Session Videos Now Available

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Attendees at PDC09 this past week were privy to quite a few sessions on parallel computing.  Now that the videos of these sessions are online, you can view them as well from the comfort of your own home.  Here are some of the key parallelism-related sessions from this past week:Overview  Managed code in Visual Studio 2010 ...

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Nov 19, 2009
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Reactive Extensions and Parallel Extensions

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

It’s awesome to see the Reactive Extensions to .NET (Rx) live on the DevLabs site.  If you haven’t checked out this exciting project, we urge you to do so.  Not only is it cool and useful technology, but the download includes a back ported (and unsupported) release of Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework 3.5 in the form ...

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Nov 18, 2009
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HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file. Pla...

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Nov 17, 2009
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CLR-Related PDC 2009 Sessions

CLR Team
CLR Team

If you’re at PDC this year and are reading the CLR Team’s blog, there are a few sessions that might be of interest to you. ·         Future of Garbage Collection is a session by the creator of the CLR’s GC, Patrick Dussud.  Come hear him talk Wednesday at 1:00PM in Petree Ha...

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Nov 15, 2009
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Debugging TPL apps in VS2010

Daniel Moth
Daniel Moth

The new parallel debugger windows in Visual Studio 2010 (Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks) have had many fixes and updates. I have refreshed the existing content and also added new material for Beta 2. Find links to all of it from my blog post on Parallel Debugging.CheersDaniel

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Nov 13, 2009
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Microsoft Biology Foundation now using Parallel Extensions

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

The Microsoft Biology Initiative (MBI) is a combined project in Microsoft Research focused on two components: the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) and the Microsoft Biology Tools (MBT).  Both the framework and the tools are related to the areas of computation biology, genomics, and bioinformatics. MBF is a language-neutral bioinformatics too...

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Nov 13, 2009
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How to Make the Most of Your .NET Server Code

CLR Team
CLR Team

One of our team’s field engineers recently sent a link to a Channel 9 video: Steve Michelotti of e.magination on High Performance Web Solutions. This company built a 64-bit web server that handles over 3 billion transactions a day and guarantees a 250 ms response time.  And it goes without saying that they built it on top of .NET. The t...

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Nov 11, 2009
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Scaling out PLINQ: DryadLINQ at PDC09 and Supercomputing09

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

PLINQ enables developers to scale up computations in order to leverage the multiple cores available in modern hardware. For many problem domains, this is quite useful and sufficient. What happens, however, when a workload being processed is so big that even a manycore machine is insufficient to adequately handle the load? This can be the case with ...

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Nov 10, 2009
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CLR Inside Out – Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model

CLR Team
CLR Team

  The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Andrew Dai on Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model.  This article discusses how the new .NET Framework 4 security model makes it easier to work with partially trusted code. You c...

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Nov 9, 2009
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Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

I've recently written a detailed paper, "Patterns for Parallel Programming: Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4", on implementing a variety of common parallel patterns with the .NET Framework 4.  The paper is now live in the Microsoft Download Center, and you can grab it from https://www.microsoft.com/do...

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