September 2011 | .NET Parallel Programming

Task Exception Handling in .NET 4.5

Stephen Toub - MSFT September 28, 2011 Sep 28, 2011 09/28/11

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. With all of this work, we’ve strived for a very high compatibility bar, which means your ...

Updated TPL Dataflow CTP

Stephen Toub - MSFT September 27, 2011 Sep 27, 2011 09/27/11

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...

How to use C++ AMP from C#

Igor Ostrovsky - MSFT September 20, 2011 Sep 20, 2011 09/20/11

[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. You’ll write most of your code in C#, the pieces to execute on the GPU in C++ AMP, and then use...

Parallelism BUILD talks available on Channel9

Stephen Toub - MSFT September 18, 2011 Sep 18, 2011 09/18/11

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: There were hundreds of other sessions this week at BUILD, and you can find their videos here: https://channel9.msdn.com/...

What’s New For Parallelism in .NET 4.5

Stephen Toub - MSFT September 17, 2011 Sep 17, 2011 09/17/11

.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, new debugger windows, new concurrency ...

Tasks are in Silverlight

Danny Shih September 1, 2011 Sep 1, 2011 09/1/11

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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