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Q&As from the 2008 Financial Services Developer Conference

A few weeks ago, I presented on Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework at the 6th annual Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference (the decks from the conference are now available online).  I had a great time and a great audience, and during the presentation on Thursday I received some good questions.  Here are some of ...


The Channel 9 videos are rolling in...

Several more Channel 9 videos on parallelism have been posted in the last few days...Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future DirectionsParallel Computing Platform: Asynchronous Agents for Native CodeRahul Patil: Complexities of Testing ConcurrencyThis is in addition to the videos mentioned a few days ago here.  Much thanks to ...


Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET

Thanks to everyone who attended our PDC pre-conference session yesterday on parallelism and concurrency!  We had a wonderful turnout at the event, and David, Joe, and I all had a terrific time. Attached to this post are the slides we presented. (It turns out that the PDC site does allow you to submit an evaluation for a precon.  If ...


Feedback requested: TaskManager shutdown, Fair scheduling

One of the primary reasons we've released CTPs of Parallel Extensions is to solicit feedback on the design and functionality it provides.  Does it provide all of the APIs you need to get your job done?  Are there scenarios you wished the APIs supported and that you need to work around in klunky ways?  And so forth.  We've ...


What's New in the June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions

We've just released a new community technology preview (CTP) of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework!  You can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=348F73FD-593D-4B3C-B055-694C50D2B0F3.  This release contains a plethora of bug fixes as well as some design changes to address some great ...


Tasks and the APM Pattern

The Asynchronous Programming Model (APM) in the .NET Framework has been around since .NET 1.0 and is the most common pattern for asynchrony in the Framework.  Even if you’re not familiar with the name, you’re likely familiar with the core of the pattern.  For a given synchronous operation Xyz, the asynchronous version ...