.NET Parallel Programming

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

June 2011 - .NET Parallel Programming

Quick microbenchmarks in Visual Studio with Code Snippets

June 29, 2011 Jun 29, 2011 06/29/11
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Parallelism is all about performance.  After all, in the majority of cases, introducing parallelism into code adds some level of complexity, and the primary reason we’re ok with that additional complexity is because we get great performance enhancements as a result.  As such, as we develop our parallel runtimes and libraries to...

Using Tasks to implement the APM Pattern

June 27, 2011 Jun 27, 2011 06/27/11
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Several times recently, folks have asked how to use tasks to implement the APM pattern, otherwise known as the Asynchronous Programming Model pattern, or the IAsyncResult pattern, or the Begin/End pattern.  While moving forward we encourage folks to use a Task-based pattern for exposing asynchronous operation, the APM pattern has been the...