October 2010 | .NET Parallel Programming

TPL Dataflow preview available for download

Stephen Toub - MSFTOctober 28, 2010Oct 28, 201010/28/10

As mentioned here, the Visual Studio Async CTP is now available for download from https://msdn.com/vstudio/async. Not only does this download add language support into C# and Visual Basic for writing asynchronous methods (in which you can easily “await” tasks), it also includes a new .NET library we lovingly refer to as &ldqu

Language support for Tasks!

Stephen Toub - MSFTOctober 27, 2010Oct 27, 201010/27/10

Today is a very exciting day for Parallel Extensions, and indeed for all developers using C# and Visual Basic and who are interested in writing more responsive and scalable applications. At the PDC this morning, Anders Hejlsberg just announced the Visual Studio Async CTP, which you can download immediately from the landing page at https://msdn

New Feature? :: ThreadLocal.Values

Danny ShihOctober 21, 2010Oct 21, 201010/21/10

We’ve been considering adding a Values property to System.Threading.ThreadLocal<T>. Values would return a collection of all current values from all threads (e.g. what you’d get if you evaluated Value from each thread). This would allow for easy aggregations, and in fact in our Parallel Extensions Extras we have a

FAQ :: StartNew() with TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext() doesn’t work?

Danny ShihOctober 15, 2010Oct 15, 201010/15/10

We’ve seen a number of folks write the following code to execute on the UI thread and get unexpected behavior. TaskScheduler uiScheduler = TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext();Task uiTask = Task.Factory.StartNew(delegate{ // … Update UI component; BUG!}, uiScheduler);The issue is that the StartN

Creating pre-completed Tasks

Danny ShihOctober 7, 2010Oct 7, 201010/7/10

We’ve been considering adding support for creating completed Tasks from an existing result. Here’s a prototypical example of where this could be valuable. void Task<float> ComputeAsync(...) { if (!resultIsCached) { return Task<

.NET Parallel Programming

October 2010 | .NET Parallel Programming

TPL Dataflow preview available for download

Language support for Tasks!

New Feature? :: ThreadLocal.Values

FAQ :: StartNew() with TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext() doesn’t work?

Creating pre-completed Tasks

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