An Archived Managed World

One of the big areas of improvements coming to Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is in the area parallel computing. There are a LOT of new features and improvements to existing features here with this latest release of our developer tools.

Many people smarter and more capable than I have already written about most of this stuff, so there’s not much for me to add. What I did want to do though is to let you know all the places where you can find this wealth of information (and there is a lot of it). So, without further ado, here is a list of content for you if you are interested in Parallel Computing with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1.

MSDN

• Managed - Parallel Programming in the .NET Framework
• Native – Concurrency Runtime
• Walkthrough – Debugging a Parallel Application

What’s New…

• What’s New in Beta 1 for Parallel LINQ (PLINQ)
• What’s New in Beta 1 for the Task Parallel Library (part 1/3)
• What’s New in Beta 1 for the Task Parallel Library (part 2/3)
• What’s New in Beta 1 for the Task Parallel Library (part 3/3)
• What’s New in Beta 1 for the Coordination Data Structures
• CLR 4 ThreadPool Improvements (part 1)
• .NET Framework 4 Cancellation Framework
• Parallel Tasks – New Visual Studio 2010 Debugger Window
• Parallel Stacks – Another New Visual Studio 2010 Debugger Window
• Parallel Stacks – Tasks View
• Parallel Stacks – Method View

Diving Deeper

• Mechanisms for Creating Tasks
• The Nature of TaskCompletionSource<TResult>
• Tasks and Unhandled Exceptions
• Tasks and the APM Pattern
• Exiting from Parallel Loops Early
• Achieving Speedups with Small Parallel Loop Bodies
• Partitioning in PLINQ

Channel 9 Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 - Inside the Thread Pool

More Oldie-But-Goodie Channel 9 Videos

• Concurrency and Parallelism: Native and Managed Perspectives
• Joe Duffy: Perspectives on Concurrent Programming and Parallelism
• 10-4 Episode 6: Parallel Extensions

Misc…

• Known Issues in Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 4 Beta 1
• Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4

Enjoy! There’s a lot here to digest. We definitely live in exciting times :).

Do you know of some links that you like that I missed here? Feel free to let me know by adding a comment here.