All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…
October 28, 2010Oct 28, 201010/28/10As 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 “TPL Dataflow”,
October 27, 2010Oct 27, 201010/27/10Today 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,
October 21, 2010Oct 21, 201010/21/10We’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 wrapper around
ThreadLocal<T>
October 15, 2010Oct 15, 201010/15/10We’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 StartNew call will bind to the
following overload…
October 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<float>.Factory.StartNew(() => Compute());
}
