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TPL Dataflow preview available for download

October 28, 2010 Oct 28, 2010 10/28/10

Stephen Toub - MSFT

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 &...

Language support for Tasks!

October 27, 2010 Oct 27, 2010 10/27/10

Stephen Toub - MSFT

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...

New Feature? :: ThreadLocal.Values

October 21, 2010 Oct 21, 2010 10/21/10

Danny Shih

We’ve been considering adding a Values property to System.Threading.ThreadLocal<T>. Values would return a collection of all current values from all threads (e.g. what you’d get if you evaluated Value from each thread). This would allow for easy aggregations, and in fact in our Parallel Extensions Extras we have a ...

FAQ :: StartNew() with TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext() doesn’t work?

October 15, 2010 Oct 15, 2010 10/15/10

Danny Shih

We’ve seen a number of folks write the following code to execute on the UI thread and get unexpected behavior. TaskScheduler uiScheduler = TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext();Task uiTask = Task.Factory.StartNew(delegate{ // … Update UI component; BUG!}, uiScheduler);The issue is that the ...

Creating pre-completed Tasks

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10

Danny Shih

We’ve been considering adding support for creating completed Tasks from an existing result. Here’s a prototypical example of where this could be valuable. void Task<float> ComputeAsync(...) { if (!resultIsCached) { return Task<...

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