Sometimes very simple additions to an API or implementation make me happy. One such nicety in the CTP of PLINQ is the implementation of ToString on the concrete types that represent query operators. These implementations provide a textual representation of the query structure, which can be very nice for debugging purposes. Consider...
Joe Duffy, our dev lead, appeared on the 12/25/07 edition of .NET Rocks!, speaking about Parallel Extensions and the Task Parallel Library: "Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft's Joe Duffy about the Task Parallel Library, which promises to make multi-threaded programming easier for us all."Enjoy!
Over on his blog, Don Syme has a post about F# and Parallel Extensions: "Over the coming year I expect we'll be seeing this library used very widely from F#, and we'll eventually be using the TPL as a key underlying technology for F# asynchronous workflows. TPL excels at CPU-intensive parallelism and exploiting multiple cores, especially ...
PLINQ is a very cool technology, and I believe it will prove useful for parallelizing operations in a wide range of important scenarios. Moreover, I believe that the programming model it provides will enable a wide-range of developers to easily take advantage of concurrency in their applications. However, one of the risks involved ...
Daniel Moth is on a roll. Two weeks ago he created three great overview screencasts for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. Today, he released a fourth video, covering the Task and TaskManager classes. Thanks, Daniel! We'll get this added to the MSDN Parallel Computing developer center soon, but in the meantime, head ...
Introduced in Visual Studio 2005, Code Snippets allow you to quickly insert reusable blocks of code into your project. For example, if you want to quickly write a for loop in C#, you can simply type "for" into your code file, and IntelliSense shows you the "for" code snippet: Now you press the tab key twice, and Visual Studio...
Consider a simplified version of Luke Hoban's LINQ ray tracervar Xs = Enumerable.Range(1, screenWidth);var Ys = Enumerable.Range(1, screenHeight); var sequentialQuery = from x in Xsfrom y in Ysselect new { X = x, Y = y, Color = TraceRay(x, y) }; If the screen width is much larger than the screen height, we would choose to para...
From time to time, we get a question about whether we intend for Parallel Extensions to target Silverlight. The simple answer is: Not Yet.Here’s a more complete answer: Not for Silverlight 2.0, at least. Rich Lander from the CLR team described the Silverlight compatibility story very nicely over on his blog. I will summarize...
Have you found any bugs, unknown issues (vs. known issues), or any wish list items? Go to our Connect site, sign up for the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework connection, and start giving us direct feedback. While the blog comments and forums are a great way to raise concerns, ask how-to questions, and engage in a dialogue,...
There are some great discussions going on over at the Parallel Extensions forum on MSDN. Download the CTP, try out the bits, head on over to the forums, and get involved! We'd love to hear from you.
