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Visual Studio 2010 - .NET Parallel Programming

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 ...

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

October 27, 2009 Oct 27, 2009 10/27/09
Danny Shih
Related posts: Last week, we talked about how TPL adopted a new, better cancellation model.  Today, we’ll cover a change that makes Tasks Detached by Default, some ContinueWhenAll/Any Refactoring, and the handy UnobservedTaskException event.Tasks are Detached by DefaultIn Beta 2, we have changed an important default.  Tasks ...

.NET 4 Beta 2 is here!

October 19, 2009 Oct 19, 2009 10/19/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
The .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is now available! MSDN Subscribers can download it today, and it will be generally available for download on Wednesday.  More information is available at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx.  Additionally, one of the really exciting things about this Beta release is that it’s &...

Parallel Computing at PDC09 and TechEd Europe 2009

October 16, 2009 Oct 16, 2009 10/16/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
It’s fall, and that means conference season!  In November, members of the Parallel Computing Platform team will be descending upon both PDC09 in Los Angeles and TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin.  We’re extremely excited to see all of you there and to discuss the new support for parallel computing that’s coming in Visual...

Parallel Computing Presentations in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee

October 16, 2009 Oct 16, 2009 10/16/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
In a week, I’m going to be traveling through Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, speaking about parallel computing, Visual Studio 2010, and .NET 4, primarily at corporations during the day and at user groups in the evenings.If you’re in the area and interested, please do attend, and I look forward to meeting you!  A list ...

TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext

September 22, 2009 Sep 22, 2009 09/22/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
The Task abstractions in .NET 4 run on instances of the TaskScheduler class.  Two implementations of TaskScheduler ship as part of the .NET Framework 4.  The first is the default scheduler, which is integrated with the .NET 4 ThreadPool and takes advantage of its work-stealing queues.  The second is the type of TaskScheduler ...

Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
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

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
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...