A question I’ve seen come up from time to time is “Why doesn’t Lazy<T> support asynchronous initialization?” It’s a fair question. After all, if you’re using Lazy<T> because you have an expensive resource you want to delay the creation of until it’s absolutely needed, it’s...
It’s been awesome seeing the level of interest developers have had for the Async CTP and how much usage it’s getting. Of course, with any new technology there are bound to be some hiccups. One issue I’ve seen arise now multiple times is developers accidentally deadlocking their application by blocking their UI ...
One of the very cool things about the new await keyword in C# and Visual Basic is that it’s pattern based. It works great with Task and Task<TResult>, and awaiting those two types will represent the vast majority of uses, but they’re by no means the only types that can be awaited. The languages support awaiting ...
After releasing a CTP of TPL Dataflow as part of the Async CTP, we had multiple requests for a standalone download for just the System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll. Thanks to everyone who asked for this, and as of this morning, such an installer for an updated version of the preview is now available! This is part of a ...
Of late, I’ve seen multiple folks asking about how to use tasks to asynchronously execute a sequence of operations. For example, given three synchronous functions: public string DoA(string input); public string DoB(string aResult); public string DoC(string bResult); you could invoke these functions with code like...
As mentioned here, the Visual Studio Async CTP is now available for download from https://msdn.com/vstudio/async. Not only does this download add language support into C# and Visual Basic for writing asynchronous methods (in which you can easily “await” tasks), it also includes a new .NET library we lovingly refer to as &...
Today is a very exciting day for Parallel Extensions, and indeed for all developers using C# and Visual Basic and who are interested in writing more responsive and scalable applications. At the PDC this morning, Anders Hejlsberg just announced the Visual Studio Async CTP, which you can download immediately from the landing page at https://msdn...
Joe Albahari, author of "C# 4.0 in a Nutshell", has just published on his Web site the material from his book covering Parallel Extensions. You can find his extensive article here:https://www.albahari.com/threading/part5.aspxNice work, Joe...
It's exciting to see that the Microsoft Biology Foundation 1.0 has been released! You can read more about it here. From MBF's Web site:"The Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework, initially aimed at the area of Genomics research. ...
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 ...
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