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After installing .NET 4.0 or later you may notice something a little unusual about your .NET processes. Here is a partial list of the loaded modules of a simple “Hello World” executable compiled with the .NET 2.0 compiler. start end module name 60f00000 61491000 mscorwks C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorwks.dll 6c65...

Joe Albahari, author of "C# 4.0 in a Nutshell", has just published on his Web site the material from his book covering Parallel Extensions.  You can find his extensive article here:https://www.albahari.com/threading/part5.aspxNice work, Joe.

A few months ago, we have a blog talking about extending the web publishing pipeline to package database project deployed SQL file.  In this blog, I’ll show step by step example of packaging web application with SQL Server database upgrade SQL file using Visual Studio 2010.  This way, we can generate a web package with incremental SQL scr...

When switching to the design view, a page containing numerous controls inside an editing region such as View or Panel may cause a crash in Visual Studio 2010. We have released a hot fix for this issue on Connect at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=30462&wa=wsignin1.0 and on Code Gallery at htt...

Recall that if exceptions thrown from Task bodies are left unobserved, they will be escalated.  In .NET 4, this means that TPL will throw them on the finalizer after the Task objects are available for garbage collection.  The UnobservedTaskException event on the TaskScheduler class was added as a last-resort method to observe such excepti...

It's exciting to see that the Microsoft Biology Foundation 1.0 has been released!  You can read more about it here.  From MBF's Web site:"The Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework, initially aimed at the area of Genomics research. Currentl...

In preparation for enhancing Visual Studio design-time experience testing, we’d like to collect a catalog of real world applications to use for performance, stress, and ad hoc testing by the Web Platform and Tools team.  We’re looking for small, medium, and large applications covering a range of architectures, languages, frameworks...

The .NET Framework 4 introduces a new mechanism for cancellation of operations, based on new types CancellationToken and CancellationTokenSource. This cancellation mechanism is used across the parallel programming libraries: tasks, concurrent collections, and PLINQ queries.Using Cancellation Support in .NET Framework 4, written by Mike Li...

About six months ago, we posted on this blog to ask for details on if/how you're using Parallel Extensions, and we got a great number of awesome responses... thanks!!  As that blog post has long since faded into distant memory, we're asking again :)Are you using Parallel Extensions, the parallelism support introduced with .NET 4? e.g. Parallel...

Many different kinds of applications can benefit from multi-core parallelism, including add-ins to Microsoft Office. Donny Amalo wrote a paper, PLINQ and Office Add-ins, where he demonstrates how to implement two parallel Microsoft Office add-ins using PLINQ: (This paper and many more are available through the Parallel Computing Developer C...