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ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour - #16 - Async Tasks for WebClient, SmtpClient, and Ping

(The full set of ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour posts is available here.) The Task Parallel Library isn’t just about CPU-bound operations.  The Task class is a great representation for any asynchronous operation, even those implemented purely as asynchronous I/O.Task’s ability to represent arbitrary asynchronous operations ...


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

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 ...


ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour - #13 - AsyncCall

(The full set of ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour posts is available here.)Producer/consumer scenarios could logically be split into two categories: those where the consumers are synchronous, blocking waiting for producers to generate data, and those where the consumers are asynchronous, such that they're alerted to data being available and only ...


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

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 ...


ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour - #7 - Additional TaskSchedulers

(The full set of ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour posts is available here.)In our last two ParallelExtensionsExtras blog tour posts, we’ve discussed two TaskScheduler implementations in ParallelExtensionsExtras: StaTaskScheduler and ConcurrentExclusiveInterleave.  These are just 2 of more than 10 schedulers in ParallelExtensionsExtras...