Visual Studio 2010 has new debugger windows to support the Task-based programming model. Check out my blog post about the Parallel Tasks window.
It's been a hectic and exciting few weeks, and we on the Parallel Computing Platform team have been having a great time talking with customers all over the world, at the PDC, at TechEd EMEA, at DevConnections, through Channel 9, and more. A lot of the resulting material is now available online for viewing, so do check it out if you're interes...
In SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008, C# introduced a new feature to provide 'live' reporting of compilation errors. Unfortunately, the introduction of this functionality also introduced a bug where in certain cases, false C# compilation errors appear in the Error List for ASP.NET Website projects. Specifically the foll...
Thanks to everyone who attended our PDC pre-conference session yesterday on parallelism and concurrency! We had a wonderful turnout at the event, and David, Joe, and I all had a terrific time. Attached to this post are the slides we presented. (It turns out that the PDC site does allow you to submit an evaluation for a precon. If you at...
The Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft is working on much more than Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework...A few weeks back, Charles from Channel 9 spoke with us about our efforts on supporting concurrency and parallelism in native code; the video of that conversation was released this week, and you can view it at https://channel9.m...
Our colleagues working on native concurrency have just launched the Parallel Programming in Native Code blog. We’re all on the same team and work really closely to ensure that the right programming models are exposed both for managed and native consumers, so you will be able to use your language of choice. Here’s a little bit...
Since the release of the December 2007 CTP of Parallel Extensions, we've received several questions about whether Parallel Extensions can be used from C++/CLI. In short, yes, it can! (It can be used with any .NET language, one of the beauties of this functionality being provided through a library.) To demonstrate, we included in the Jun...
Heading to TechEd 2008? Come discover some of the exciting technologies the Parallel Computing Platform team is working on. We're presenting four sessions on parallelism at the Developer conference: DVP205 The Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative: Bringing Concurrency to the Masses Tuesday, June 3 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM, S210 B Software is headed...
