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October 2008 - .NET Parallel Programming

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP now available!

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08
Danny Shih
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP is now available, featuring Parallel Extensions to .NET!  Parallel Extensions has been introduced before, but what sets this CTP apart from the previous two is that it’s not a CTP of Parallel Extensions alone but of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0.  And excitingly, the Task ...

Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET

October 28, 2008 Oct 28, 2008 10/28/08
Stephen Toub - MSFT
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 ...

The Channel 9 videos are rolling in…

October 16, 2008 Oct 16, 2008 10/16/08
Stephen Toub - MSFT
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 ...

Native concurrency, tools, and TM

October 13, 2008 Oct 13, 2008 10/13/08
Stephen Toub - MSFT
The Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft is working on much more than Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework...A few weeks back, Charles from Channel 9 spoke with us about our efforts on supporting concurrency and parallelism in native code; the video of that conversation was released this week, and you can view it at https://...

Parallel Programming and the .NET Framework 4.0

October 10, 2008 Oct 10, 2008 10/10/08
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Last week, the VP of the Developer Division at Microsoft announced the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.  In line with that, the folks at Channel 9 have been posting videos left and right about a bunch of the new Visual Studio features, and there should be a plethora of ...