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Concurrency Visualizer: A Case Study

Igor Ostrovsky - MSFT June 25, 2010 Jun 25, 2010 06/25/10

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 ...

Upcoming NYC user group presentation on Parallel Programming

Stephen Toub - MSFT June 13, 2010 Jun 13, 2010 06/13/10

I'm going to be in Manhattan on June 29th, and while there I'll be presenting to a joint meeting of the NYC .NET Developer's Group and the New York ALT.NET Group on parallel programming with .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Details are available here, and I'll look forward to seeing you there!Thanks!Stephen...

Parallel Computing at TechEd North America 2010

Stephen Toub - MSFT June 6, 2010 Jun 6, 2010 06/6/10

Are you attending TechEd in New Orleans this week? If so, check out the multitude of parallel computing-related breakout sessions, including: The first two (DEV314 and DEV317) are being presented by Huseyin Yildiz, one of the primary developers on the Parallel Computing Platform team responsible for the Task Parallel ...

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

Stephen Toub - MSFT May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10

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 ...

Why is TaskContinuationsOptions.ExecuteSynchronously opt-in?

Stephen Toub - MSFT May 24, 2010 May 24, 2010 05/24/10

For a relatively advanced feature, I've been surprised how often this question has come up recently. When a task completes, its continuations become available for execution, and by default, a continuation will be scheduled for execution rather than executed immediately. This means that the continuation has to be queued to the ...

Parallel Computing Sessions at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch

Stephen Toub - MSFT April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10

Thanks to everyone who attended our three breakout sessions at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch and DevConnections conference this week in Las Vegas. Attached to this blog post are the slide decks that were presented at the talks. The code from the talks is available either as part of our Parallel Programming in .NET 4 samples ...

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 are now available!

Stephen Toub - MSFT April 12, 2010 Apr 12, 2010 04/12/10

As announced here, Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 are available! This includes the exciting support for parallel computing that we've been talking about for quite some time now. For an overview of what's new for developers with managed code, both in terms of frameworks and tools, check out this new article on ...

Parallelism coverage in April 2010 MSDN Magazine

Stephen Toub - MSFT April 8, 2010 Apr 8, 2010 04/8/10

The April 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available, and it has several nice articles that highlight the new parallel programming support in Visual Studio 2010. Check out Doug Turnure's "Better Coding: Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010" and Sumit Kumar's "Visual C++: Exploring New C++ and MFC Features in Visual Studio 2010...

PDC09 Parallelism Session Videos Now Available

Stephen Toub - MSFT November 21, 2009 Nov 21, 2009 11/21/09

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...

Debugging TPL apps in VS2010

Daniel Moth November 15, 2009 Nov 15, 2009 11/15/09

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...

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