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TPL Dataflow NuGet Package for .NET 4.5

Stephen Toub - MSFTAugust 21, 2012Aug 21, 201208/21/12

As just announced on the Base Class Libraries (BCL) team blog, the RTM release of TPL Dataflow is now available.Enjoy...

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

Stephen Toub - MSFTMarch 6, 2012Mar 6, 201203/6/12

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

Danny ShihDecember 5, 2011Dec 5, 201112/5/11

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

Cristina ManuNovember 9, 2011Nov 9, 201111/9/11

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

Stephen Toub - MSFTSeptember 27, 2011Sep 27, 201109/27/11

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...

What’s New For Parallelism in .NET 4.5

Stephen Toub - MSFTSeptember 17, 2011Sep 17, 201109/17/11

.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 ...

Presentation on TPL Dataflow in financial applications

Stephen Toub - MSFTMay 2, 2011May 2, 201105/2/11

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

Stephen Toub - MSFTApril 13, 2011Apr 13, 201104/13/11

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 ...

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