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Web project package and deployment targets files are written with extensibility in mind.  User can easily extend a property to include more functionalities in their package by using msbuild targets and properties.  If we check the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets file under “%Program Files%MSBuildMicrosoftVisualStudiov10.0Web”, we can s...

As you probably heard the Visual Studio 2010 RC is currently available for MSDN subscribers! You can download it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx. General public release is slated for Wed.The Web Development Tools Team has setup a DL that we would like you to use to send us direct feedback on anything web development ...

The aim of this post is to help developers writing applications in which operations may need to be performed and then later undone due to a subsequent failure. It shows a pattern for how to maintain such a consistent application state by utilizing functionality from the Task Parallel Library (TPL) in the .NET Framework 4. For the purposes of this ...

We finished generating a new VSDoc for the latest update of jQuery.  You can download it from the jQuery Downloads page.  A refresher on how to use the file can be found here or here.  Happy coding!Jeff KingProgram ManagerVisual Studio Web Tools

ASP.NET applications already get a lot of concurrency for free. The .NET Framework load balances incoming requests among ThreadPool worker threads, striving for optimal use of available CPUs. As long as you minimize blocking in your ASP.NET page code, ASP.NET will process requests concurrently. In most cases, and in particular for Web applications ...

Igor Ostrovsky is a developer on the Parallel Extensions team.  On his blog, he's documented a great set of examples for how caches can affect application performance; this is important to think through when writing parallel applications, but as Igor demonstrates, it applies equally to serial applications.  Check out his post.

Are you using Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), or any of the new coordination and synchronization primitives in .NET 4 (or in the Parallel Extensions June 2008 CTP or with the recent Reactive Extensions release)?  Are you planning to use or are you already using this support in a production application or libra...

Several months ago, Microsoft announced for academic customers the availability of DryadLINQ.  DryadLINQ is a LINQ provider developed by Microsoft Research that enables  .NET developers to use the LINQ programming model for writing distributed queries and computations against a cluster of computers using Windows HPC Server. DryadLINQ enab...

Are you using the CCR (Microsoft Robotics' "Concurrency & Coordination Runtime") today in production applications or libraries, and in particular for non-robotics purposes?  If so, we’d love to hear about your experiences, and any and all information you’re willing to share would be very welcome.  What do you like about it...

(This answer is based on the .NET Framework 4.  As the details below are undocumented implementation details, they may change in future releases.)No.  All of the collections in the new System.Collections.Concurrent namespace employ lock-free techniques to some extent in order to achieve general performance benefits, but traditional locks ...