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The .NET Framework 4 introduces a new mechanism for cancellation of operations, based on new types CancellationToken and CancellationTokenSource. This cancellation mechanism is used across the parallel programming libraries: tasks, concurrent collections, and PLINQ queries.Using Cancellation Support in .NET Framework 4, written by Mike Li...

About six months ago, we posted on this blog to ask for details on if/how you're using Parallel Extensions, and we got a great number of awesome responses... thanks!!  As that blog post has long since faded into distant memory, we're asking again :)Are you using Parallel Extensions, the parallelism support introduced with .NET 4? e.g. Parallel...

Many different kinds of applications can benefit from multi-core parallelism, including add-ins to Microsoft Office. Donny Amalo wrote a paper, PLINQ and Office Add-ins, where he demonstrates how to implement two parallel Microsoft Office add-ins using PLINQ: (This paper and many more are available through the Parallel Computing Developer C...

Despite the similarity in naming, the System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel class and the System.Activities.Statements.Parallel* activities in WF4 are largely orthogonal in the scenarios they address. However, WF4 activities and the new parallel programming types in .NET 4 can be used together to great advantage.Ling Wo and Cristina Manu wrote a pap...

Boby George and Pooja Nagpal - testers on the Parallel Computing Platform team responsible for the parallel programming support in .NET 4- built a parallel spell checker algorithm and used the Concurrency Visualizer to analyze and improve the performance and scalability of their implementation.Optimizing Parallel Applications Using Concurrency...

In order to execute parallel queries as efficiently as possible, Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) treats ordering as optional. By default, PLINQ considers sequences to be unordered, unless the user explicitly opts into maintaining ordering using either the AsOrdered or the OrderBy operator.Roy Patrick Tan wrote a detailed article that expl...

With TPL, there are several ways to create and start a new task.  One way is to use the constructor for task followed by a call to the Start method, e.g.        new Task(...).Start();and the other is by using the StartNew method of TaskFactory, e.g.        Task.Factory.StartNew(....

I'm going to be in Manhattan on June 29th, and while there I'll be presenting to a joint meeting of the NYC .NET Developer's Group and the New York ALT.NET Group on parallel programming with .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.  Details are available here, and I'll look forward to seeing you there!Thanks!Stephen

Are you attending TechEd in New Orleans this week?  If so, check out the multitude of parallel computing-related breakout sessions, including: The first two (DEV314 and DEV317) are being presented by Huseyin Yildiz, one of the primary developers on the Parallel Computing Platform team responsible for the Task Parallel Library.En...

We’ve been very excited about the new debugging windows in Visual Studio 2010, namely Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks, as well as the newly revamped Threads window, and thus we’ve talked about them quite a bit. For an overview, you can read the MSDN Magazine article at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee410778.aspx, and Daniel Moth has ...