.NET Parallel Programming

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Dataflow - .NET Parallel Programming

Are you using TPL Dataflow? We’d love to know!

March 6, 2012 Mar 6, 2012 03/6/12
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Are you using the new System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll library, either from its CTPs or from the .NET 4.5 Developer Preview or Beta?  We'd love to hear about it, and if you have time, what your experiences have been (good or bad).  What kind of solution are you building, and how are you using TPL Dataflow in it?  Has the ...

Paper :: Guide to Implementing Custom TPL Dataflow Blocks

December 5, 2011 Dec 5, 2011 12/5/11
Danny Shih
TPL Dataflow includes a number of built-in, already-implemented blocks that target the most common scenarios.  Additionally, some flexibility is provided by the set of options that may be used to tweak block behaviors.  However, a developer may still choose to implement a custom block for advanced scenarios where the built-in ones ...

Exception Handling in TPL Dataflow Networks

November 9, 2011 Nov 9, 2011 11/9/11
Cristina Manu
A “dataflow block” is represented by a class implementing the IDataflowBlock interface. The state of a dataflow block is represented by the state of its IDataflowBlock.Completion Task, which itself has a Status property. When a dataflow block is in active state, meaning that it is currently doing processing or may do more processing in the...

Updated TPL Dataflow CTP

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

What’s New For Parallelism in .NET 4.5

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

Presentation on TPL Dataflow in financial applications

May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011 05/2/11
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Matt Davey from Lab49 presented at the Waters North American Trading Architecture Summit April 2011 on using TPL Dataflow in trading solutions.  You can see his slide deck at http://www.slideshare.net/mattdotdavey/waters-north-american-trading-architecture-summit-april-2011. It's awesome to see the technology being used effectively to ...

TPL Dataflow CTP Refresh

April 13, 2011 Apr 13, 2011 04/13/11
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Today, we released a new CTP of TPL Dataflow, otherwise known as System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll.  You can download this as part of the Microsoft Visual Studio Async CTP, which will also install the new C#/Visual Basic support for writing asynchronous methods, or you can install the DLL itself through the installer available on the ...