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Apr 21, 2010
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When To Use Parallel.ForEach and When to Use PLINQ

Igor Ostrovsky - MSFT
Igor Ostrovsky - MSFT

If you've played around with PLINQ and Parallel.ForEach loops in .NET 4, you may have noticed that many PLINQ queries can be rewritten as parallel loops, and also many parallel loops can be rewritten as PLINQ queries. However, both parallel loops and PLINQ have distinct advantages in different situations. When writing ...

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Apr 20, 2010
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One-Click Publish – What’s New Since Beta 2

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Publishing using MSDeploy In-Process Deployment or Remote Agent Through the Beta 2 release, VS 2010 had only supported publishing to servers using MSDeploy's IIS deployment handler technology integrated with the “Web Management Service”, a.k.a. WMSVC. As long as you had an account on a hosting server using WMSVC,...

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Apr 19, 2010
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Upgrade or Uninstall of Office 2007 might cause VS 2008 Web designer to hang

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Update (5/3/2010): In addition to the VS designer surface not loading, there are other actions that will cause a hang.  Working with CSS increases your chances of seeing this issue.  For example, bringing up the CSS Manage Styles dialog, the CSS property grid, or CSS Apply Styles dialog can all cause the hang.  Another...

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Apr 19, 2010
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A Tour of Various TPL Options

Igor Ostrovsky - MSFT
Igor Ostrovsky - MSFT

The Task Parallel Library (TPL) exposes various options that give you more control over how tasks get scheduled and executed: Joseph E. Hoag's article A Tour of Various TPL Options explains these options in detail, accompanied by examples of correct and incorrect uses.(This paper and many more are available through the Parallel Computing D...

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Apr 15, 2010
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Parallel Computing Sessions at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Thanks to everyone who attended our three breakout sessions at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch and DevConnections conference this week in Las Vegas.  Attached to this blog post are the slide decks that were presented at the talks.  The code from the talks is available either as part of our Parallel Programming in .NET 4 samples at htt...

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Apr 15, 2010
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Controls State: “Error Creating Control” in the Design View in Visual Studio 2010

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

In VS 2010, if you are accessing the Session state in the OnInit(…) method of your page, similar to the following code snippet: then you will encounter an “Error Creating Control” for ASP.NET controls when viewing the Design view of the page. For example, if you have an ASP.NET button control on the page, the designer will display the error: ...

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Apr 15, 2010
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Issues between Visual Studio, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse and Windows 2008 Server

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on idle (not to be confused with background threads - idle processing is performed on the main ...

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Apr 15, 2010
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Silverlight 4 Tools Released

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

This morning we released Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010!The link to download and installs the tools is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177508.  The tools will install: Note that this is the RC release of the Silverlight 4 tools. With these tools you can start developing Silverlight 4 applications using Vis...

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Apr 15, 2010
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ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour – #11 – ParallelDynamicInvoke

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

(The full set of ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour posts is available here.)  Delegates in .NET may have one or more methods in their invocation list.  When you invoke a delegate, such as through the Delegate.DynamicInvoke method, the net result is that all of the methods in the invocation list get invoked, one after the other.  Of...

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Apr 14, 2010
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Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Available Now

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation now with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus). The power tool named “Web Deployment Projects” originally shipped as an out-of-ban...

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