.NET Parallel Programming

All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…

August 2009 - .NET Parallel Programming

The meaning of TaskStatus

August 30, 2009 Aug 30, 2009 08/30/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Every System.Threading.Tasks.Task instance goes through a lifecycle, and it only makes this journey once.  To provide insight into where in that lifecycle a given Task is, the Task class provides an instance Status property.  That property returns a value from the TaskStatus enumeration that reflects the current point in the ...

Parallel Extensions and I/O

August 4, 2009 Aug 4, 2009 08/4/09
Danny Shih
In this post, we’ll investigate some ways that Parallel Extensions can be used to introduce parallelism and asynchrony to I/O scenarios. Here’s a simple scenario.  I want to retrieve data from a number of web resources. static string[] Resources = new string[] {     "http://www.microsoft.com", "http://www.msdn.com", &...