.NET Parallel Programming

All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…

.NET 4 Cancellation Framework

A very interesting addition to .NET 4 is a set of new types that specifically assist with building cancellation-aware applications and libraries. The new types enable rich scenarios for convenient and safe cancellation, and help simplify situations that used to be be difficult and error-prone and non-composable. The details of the new types ...

Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4

Along with the release of the .NET Framework 4 Beta 1, we've just published a slew of samples that demonstrate using Parallel Extensions in a variety of ways.  You can download these from Code Gallery at https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples.These samples include raytracers, a sudoku game, an image colorization algorithm, solvers ...

.NET 4 MSDN documentation for parallelism

In addition to the Betas of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 being available for download today, the MSDN documentation for .NET 4 Beta 1 is also available.  This includes quite a bit of useful information about the new parallelism constructs.  Here's a summary of the relevant material, with links: Related to...

.NET 4 Beta 1 is now available, with parallelism!

We’re very excited that the .NET Framework 4 Beta is now available for public download, as .NET 4 has Parallel Extensions built into its core. You can download the Betas for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd582936.aspx.For more information on what’s new in Beta 1 regarding ...

Parallelism Videos Galore

It's been a hectic and exciting few weeks, and we on the Parallel Computing Platform team have been having a great time talking with customers all over the world, at the PDC, at TechEd EMEA, at DevConnections, through Channel 9, and more.  A lot of the resulting material is now available online for viewing, so do check it out if you're ...