Stephen Toub - MSFT

Partner Software Engineer, .NET

Stephen Toub is a developer on the .NET team at Microsoft.

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.NET Framework 4.0 Poster for Download

November 4th, 2008
Brad Abrams posted about a cool .NET Framework 4.0 poster which was distributed at the PDC last week and which you can download. Zoom in on the CORE section right in the middle for a glimpse into the parallelism support in .NET 4.0...

Using Hyper-V with the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

November 4th, 2008
Last week, we posted about the availability of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP, which includes Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework.  This preview release is available as a Virtual PC (VPC) image.  Unfortunately, a VPC image isn't great for showcasing parallel processing, as even on a machine with many cores, ...

Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET

October 28th, 2008
Thanks to everyone who attended our PDC pre-conference session yesterday on parallelism and concurrency!  We had a wonderful turnout at the event, and David, Joe, and I all had a terrific time. Attached to this post are the slides we presented. (It turns out that the PDC site does allow you to submit an evaluation for a precon.  If ...

The Channel 9 videos are rolling in…

October 16th, 2008
Several more Channel 9 videos on parallelism have been posted in the last few days...Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future DirectionsParallel Computing Platform: Asynchronous Agents for Native CodeRahul Patil: Complexities of Testing ConcurrencyThis is in addition to the videos mentioned a few days ago here.  Much thanks to ...

Native concurrency, tools, and TM

October 13th, 2008
The Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft is working on much more than Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework...A few weeks back, Charles from Channel 9 spoke with us about our efforts on supporting concurrency and parallelism in native code; the video of that conversation was released this week, and you can view it at https://...

Parallel Programming and the .NET Framework 4.0

October 10th, 2008
Last week, the VP of the Developer Division at Microsoft announced the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.  In line with that, the folks at Channel 9 have been posting videos left and right about a bunch of the new Visual Studio features, and there should be a plethora of ...

Parallelism in October 2008 MSDN Magazine

October 2nd, 2008
The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine just went online yesterday, and it's chock full of content on parallelism.  Definitely worth a cover to cover read...

Webcasts on Parallelism from France

September 2nd, 2008
A few months back, Keith Yedlin and Steve Teixeira from the Parallel Computing Platform team were in France visiting with customers.  While there, they presented on our parallelism efforts, and with the help of the great team from Microsoft France, this presentation is now available online as a series of webcasts (the titles are all in ...

Feedback requested: Enumerating Concurrent Collections

August 12th, 2008
The June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions contained a first look at some of the work we're doing to augment the .NET Framework with a set of additional coordination data structures that aid in the development of highly concurrent applications.  This included two thread-safe collections, ConcurrentQueue<T> and ConcurrentStack<T>...

ParallelWhileNotEmpty

August 7th, 2008
Parallel Extensions includes the System.Threading.Parallel class, which provides several high-level loop replacement constructs like For and ForEach. In previous blog posts, we've taken a look at implementing other loops, such as for loops with arbitrary initialization, conditional, and update logic, range-based loops, and a parallel while.&...

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