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Rejoice!  Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is upon us and it includes lots of great changes for the Parallel Extensions.  TPL guru Danny Shih has already covered what’s new in TPL and PLINQ aficionado Ed Essey has covered the best way to use LINQ (specifically between Beta 1 and Beta 2) but your favorite set of thread-safe collections and synchr...

Included in the .NET 4 Framework Beta 2 is a more robust and faster version of PLINQ.  Between B1 and B2, PLINQ changes have mainly been under the covers, so hopefully no need to rewrite any of your applications to see the improvements.  1.       Many improvements to performance and scalability2.  &...

Related posts: What's new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (1/3) What's new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (2/3) Last time, we covered Tasks being detached by default and some refactorings in our multiple-Task continuation APIs.  The final post of this series will discuss Nested Tasks and Unwrap, a Parallel namespace chang...

Are you attending PDC09?  Want to meet with members of the Parallel Computing Platform team?  See https://blogs.msdn.com/visualizeparallel/archive/2009/11/02/the-parallel-computing-platform-team-pcd-09.aspx for more details.

We've posted a whole bunch of samples on Code Gallery showcasing how to use the new parallelism support in the .NET Framework 4.  You can find them at https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples.  Enjoy!

Last week, I had the privilege of touring around Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan, speaking about the new parallel computing support in Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.  Many folks I spoke with were interested in getting a copy of the slide deck I used, so I’ve attached it to this blog post.  Enjoy! Toub_ParallelismTour...