.NET Parallel Programming

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Announcing 10-4! Weekly video podcasts on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0

The Visual Studio and .NET Framework evangelism team have teamed up with Channel 9 on a new series of video podcasts.  10-4 will take a look at a different capability of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 every week.  Here's a note from that team: You can be the first to get these episodes by visiting https://channel9....

Parallelism Videos Galore

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 ...

Using Hyper-V with the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Last week, we posted about the availability of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP, which includes Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework.  This preview release is available as a Virtual PC (VPC) image.  Unfortunately, a VPC image isn't great for showcasing parallel processing, as even on a machine with many cores, ...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP now available!

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP is now available, featuring Parallel Extensions to .NET!  Parallel Extensions has been introduced before, but what sets this CTP apart from the previous two is that it’s not a CTP of Parallel Extensions alone but of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0.  And excitingly, the Task ...

Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET

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 ...

The Channel 9 videos are rolling in…

Several more Channel 9 videos on parallelism have been posted in the last few days...Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future DirectionsParallel Computing Platform: Asynchronous Agents for Native CodeRahul Patil: Complexities of Testing ConcurrencyThis is in addition to the videos mentioned a few days ago here.  Much thanks to ...

Native concurrency, tools, and TM

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://...

Parallel Programming and the .NET Framework 4.0

Last week, the VP of the Developer Division at Microsoft announced the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.  In line with that, the folks at Channel 9 have been posting videos left and right about a bunch of the new Visual Studio features, and there should be a plethora of ...