.NET Parallel Programming

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A Tour of Various TPL Options

A Tour of Various TPL Options

Igor Ostrovsky - MSFTApril 19, 2010Apr 19, 201004/19/10

The Task Parallel Library (TPL) exposes various options that give you more control over how tasks get scheduled and executed: Joseph E. Hoag's article A Tour of Various TPL Options explains these options in detail, accompanied by examples of correct and incorrect uses.(This paper and many more are available through the Parallel Comput

Parent-Child Task Relationships in the .NET Framework 4

Parent-Child Task Relationships in the .NET Framework 4

Igor Ostrovsky - MSFTMarch 27, 2010Mar 27, 201003/27/10

The Task Parallel Library in the .NET Framework 4 provides an opt-in feature that enables parent-child relationships between tasks. This relationship brings with it some additional behaviors, including that a parent task is not considered completed until all of its child tasks have completed, and that exceptions from