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.NET 4 - .NET Parallel Programming

PDC09 Parallelism Session Videos Now Available

November 21, 2009 Nov 21, 2009 11/21/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Attendees at PDC09 this past week were privy to quite a few sessions on parallel computing.  Now that the videos of these sessions are online, you can view them as well from the comfort of your own home.  Here are some of the key parallelism-related sessions from this past week:Overview  Managed code in Visual Studio 2010...

Reactive Extensions and Parallel Extensions

November 19, 2009 Nov 19, 2009 11/19/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
It’s awesome to see the Reactive Extensions to .NET (Rx) live on the DevLabs site.  If you haven’t checked out this exciting project, we urge you to do so.  Not only is it cool and useful technology, but the download includes a back ported (and unsupported) release of Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework 3.5 in the ...

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...

Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework

November 9, 2009 Nov 9, 2009 11/9/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
I've recently written a detailed paper, "Patterns for Parallel Programming: Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4", on implementing a variety of common parallel patterns with the .NET Framework 4.  The paper is now live in the Microsoft Download Center, and you can grab it from https://www.microsoft....

What’s New in Beta 2 for PLINQ

November 5, 2009 Nov 5, 2009 11/5/09
essey
Included in the .NET 4 Framework Beta 2 is a more robust and faster version of PLINQ.  Between B1 and B2, PLINQ changes have mainly been under the covers, so hopefully no need to rewrite any of your applications to see the improvements.  1.       Many improvements to performance and scalability2. &...

What’s new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (Part 3/3)

November 4, 2009 Nov 4, 2009 11/4/09
Danny Shih
Related posts: What's new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (1/3) What's new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (2/3) Last time, we covered Tasks being detached by default and some refactorings in our multiple-Task continuation APIs.  The final post of this series will discuss Nested Tasks and Unwrap, a Parallel namespace ...