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Code Snippets for Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach

December 10, 2007 Dec 10, 2007 12/10/07
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Introduced in Visual Studio 2005, Code Snippets allow you to quickly insert reusable blocks of code into your project.  For example, if you want to quickly write a for loop in C#, you can simply type "for" into your code file, and IntelliSense shows you the "for" code snippet: (image) Now you press the tab key twice, and ...

Parallel Extensions and Silverlight 2.0

December 5, 2007 Dec 5, 2007 12/5/07
joedu
From time to time, we get a question about whether we intend for Parallel Extensions to target Silverlight.  The simple answer is: Not Yet.Here’s a more complete answer: Not for Silverlight 2.0, at least.  Rich Lander from the CLR team described the Silverlight compatibility story very nicely over on his blog.  I will ...

Give Feedback Through the Connect site

December 4, 2007 Dec 4, 2007 12/4/07
essey
Have you found any bugs, unknown issues (vs. known issues), or any wish list items?  Go to our Connect site, sign up for the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework connection, and start giving us direct feedback.   While the blog comments and forums are a great way to raise concerns, ask how-to questions, and engage in a ...

MSDN Forums

December 4, 2007 Dec 4, 2007 12/4/07
Stephen Toub - MSFT
There are some great discussions going on over at the Parallel Extensions forum on MSDN.  Download the CTP, try out the bits, head on over to the forums, and get involved!  We'd love to hear from you...

New “Parallel Computing” dev center on MSDN

November 29, 2007 Nov 29, 2007 11/29/07
Stephen Toub - MSFT
There's a new Parallel Computing developer center on MSDN: "Microsoft’s Parallel Computing developer center is dedicated to providing information, ideas, community, and technology to developers to make it easier to write programs that perform and scale well on parallel hardware."  Check it out!  There are already a plethora of ...

PLINQ changes since the MSDN Magazine article

November 29, 2007 Nov 29, 2007 11/29/07
Stephen Toub - MSFT
I posted about changes we've made to the Task Parallel Library since we published the MSDN Magazine article outlining its design.  In this post, I'll do the same thing for PLINQ.  Most of the October 2007 article on PLINQ is still accurate.   After all, PLINQ is largely an implementation of the .NET Standard Query Operators...

CTP Quality

November 29, 2007 Nov 29, 2007 11/29/07
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Community Technology Preview (CTP) releases from Microsoft typically provide early looks at the technologies a team is working on.  Frequently, CTP quality is nowhere near what folks might expect from Beta releases and the like, and that's ok.  The idea is to give all of you in the community a look at what we're working on, giving ...