September 2011 | Parallel Programming with .NET

Task Exception Handling in .NET 4.5

Stephen Toub - MSFTSeptember 28, 2011Sep 28, 201109/28/11

For the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview, a lot of work has been done to improve the Task Parallel Library (TPL), in terms of functionality, in terms of performance, and in terms of integration with the rest of the .NET Framework.

Updated TPL Dataflow CTP

Stephen Toub - MSFTSeptember 27, 2011Sep 27, 201109/27/11

It’s been a few months since April when we last released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll, aka “TPL Dataflow”. Today for your programming pleasure, we have another update.
As mentioned in “What’s New for Parallelism in .NET 4.5”, System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll is part of the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview released last week at the BUILD conference.

How to use C++ AMP from C#

Igor Ostrovsky - MSFTSeptember 20, 2011Sep 20, 201109/20/11

[Updated 5/17/2012 for Visual Studio 11 Beta]
In Visual Studio 11 Beta, C++ AMP enables you to accelerate your applications using heterogeneous hardware such as GPUs.
If you are a .NET developer, you can still use C++ AMP in your applications.

Parallelism BUILD talks available on Channel9

Stephen Toub - MSFTSeptember 18, 2011Sep 18, 201109/18/11

Thanks to everyone who attended my two talks at BUILD this past week, and I hope you enjoyed the sessions! For those of you unable to attend in person, the recordings of the talks are now available on Channel9:

Building parallelized apps with .NET and Visual Studio

The zen of async: Best practices for best performance

There were hundreds of other sessions this week at BUILD,

What’s New For Parallelism in .NET 4.5

Stephen Toub - MSFTSeptember 17, 2011Sep 17, 201109/17/11

.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 saw the introduction of a wide range of new support for parallelism: the Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), new synchronization and coordination primitives and collections (e.g. ConcurrentDictionary), an improved ThreadPool for handling parallel workloads,

Tasks are in Silverlight

Danny ShihSeptember 1, 2011Sep 1, 201109/1/11

So many of you have asked about it, and it’s finally here. You can now download the RC SDK and Developer Runtime of Silverlight 5, which includes TPL Tasks!
https://10rem.net/blog/2011/09/01/silverlight-5-rc-now-available
http://www.silverlight.net/downloads

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