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Continuing the tour of the samples included in the Parallel Extensions June 2008 CTP, we now turn our attention to the "Image Colorizer" application.   This sample uses the following constructs from Parallel Extensions: System.Threading.Parallel.For() and also the following from the standard .NET libraries: System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWor...

Charles from Channel 9 came over to building 112 last week for an in-depth look at what's new in the June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions.  We spoke on the subject for an hour and a half or so, which you can see in a two-part series that was posted to Channel 9 yesterday (by the way, Channel 9 team, the new site looks great!): What bett...

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...

The June 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework was released on Monday, and we’re really pleased at the level of excitement in the community that we’re seeing in response.  As part of the CTP, we included a  variety of demos and samples to help provide a tour of the functionality.  If you...

We've just released a new community technology preview (CTP) of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework!  You can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=348F73FD-593D-4B3C-B055-694C50D2B0F3.  This release contains a plethora of bug fixes as well as some design changes to address some great feedback fr...

We’re very excited to announce our 2nd Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 3.5.  We released the Dec07 CTP on 11/29/2007, and from that we have received a lot of feedback from the community and customers.  While you have been using our bits, participating in our forums, sharing your insig...

The Jun08 CTP is still an early pre-release version that is not ready for production usage.  In addition to on-going feature additions and performance work, there are some known issues that we plan to address in future releases.  Of course, there are always things that we missed and we would love your feedback on them either as comments t...

Interested in parallel programming with .NET and on Windows?  Thinking of attending the Microsoft PDC this year?  Well, if you do, make sure to come a day early.  The Parallel Computing Platform team will be presenting a day-long pre-conference session on October 26th from 10:00am-5:45pm: Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windo...

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...

The Parallel.For/ForEach loop constructs included in Parallel Extensions support a variant of thread-local state to aid in efficiently passing data between loop iterations.  Consider one such overload of Parallel.For: public static void For<TLocal>( int fromInclusive, int toExclusive, Func<TLocal> threadLocalInit, Actio...