.NET Parallel Programming

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Debugging - .NET Parallel Programming

Keeping Async Methods Alive

October 2, 2011 Oct 2, 2011 10/2/11
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Consider a type that will print out a message when it’s finalized, and that has a Dispose method which will suppress finalization: class DisplayOnFinalize : IDisposable {     public void Dispose() { GC.SuppressFinalize(this); }     ~DisplayOnFinalize() { Console.WriteLine(“Finalized”); } } Now ...

Concurrency Visualizer: A Case Study

June 25, 2010 Jun 25, 2010 06/25/10
Igor Ostrovsky - MSFT
Boby George and Pooja Nagpal - testers on the Parallel Computing Platform team responsible for the parallel programming support in .NET 4- built a parallel spell checker algorithm and used the Concurrency Visualizer to analyze and improve the performance and scalability of their implementation.Optimizing Parallel Applications Using ...

Lesser-known Multi-threaded Debugging Support in Visual Studio 2010

May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10
Stephen Toub - MSFT
We’ve been very excited about the new debugging windows in Visual Studio 2010, namely Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks, as well as the newly revamped Threads window, and thus we’ve talked about them quite a bit. For an overview, you can read the MSDN Magazine article at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee410778.aspx, and Daniel ...

Debugging TPL apps in VS2010

November 15, 2009 Nov 15, 2009 11/15/09
Daniel Moth
The new parallel debugger windows in Visual Studio 2010 (Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks) have had many fixes and updates. I have refreshed the existing content and also added new material for Beta 2. Find links to all of it from my blog post on Parallel Debugging.CheersDaniel...