September 2012

.NET Parallel Programming

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

New TaskCreationOptions and TaskContinuationOptions in .NET 4.5

September 22, 2012 Sep 22, 2012 09/22/12

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Astute users of the Task Parallel Library might have noticed three new options available across TaskCreationOptions and TaskContinuationOptions in .NET 4.5: DenyChildAttach, HideScheduler, and (on TaskContinuationOptions) LazyCancellation. I wanted to take a few minutes to share more about what these are and why we added them....

Forking in async methods

September 11, 2012 Sep 11, 2012 09/11/12

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Given that .NET 4.5 has only recently been released in its final form, it’s not surprising that many folks are still very new to the async/await keywords and have misconceptions about what they are and what they do (I’ve tried to clarify some of these in this Async/Await FAQ). One of the more common misconceptions is that a ...

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