Feedback Requested

New Feature? :: Delayed cancellation

November 4, 2010 Nov 4, 2010 11/4/10

We’re interested in adding support for schedulingcancellation. For example: // Create atoken source that will Cancel() after a delayvar cts = new CancellationTokenSource(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));// And/orschedule a Cancel() callcts.CancelAfter(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));We’ve heard from many folks ...

New Feature? :: ThreadLocal.Values

October 21, 2010 Oct 21, 2010 10/21/10

Danny Shih

We’ve been considering adding a Values property toSystem.Threading.ThreadLocal<T>. Valueswould return a collection of all current values from all threads (e.g. whatyou’d get if you evaluated Value from each thread). This would allow for easy aggregations, andin fact in our Parallel Extensions Extras we have a ...

Creating pre-completed Tasks

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10

Danny Shih

We’ve been considering adding support for creating completedTasks from an existing result. Here’s aprototypical example of where this could be valuable. voidTask<float> ComputeAsync(...){ if (!resultIsCached) { returnTask<...

DryadLinq now available also for non-academic use

February 4, 2010 Feb 4, 2010 02/4/10

Massimo Mascaro

Several months ago, Microsoft announced for academic customers the availability of DryadLINQ. DryadLINQ is a LINQ provider developed by Microsoft Research that enables .NET developers to use the LINQ programming model for writing distributed queries and computations against a cluster of computers using Windows HPC Server. DryadLINQ...

Feedback requested: Enumerating Concurrent Collections

August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08

Stephen Toub - MSFT

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>...

Feedback requested: TaskManager shutdown, Fair scheduling

August 1, 2008 Aug 1, 2008 08/1/08