I delivered a session on parallel at NxtGenUg Birmingham last night. As well as covering the new features in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 I also gave a heads up on Axum, an incubator project for a new programming language for parallel development as well as a  brief look at Concurrent Basic, a research project from Microsoft. You might also want to check out a post I did introducing Axum.

The main links:

• Parallel team http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/
• MSDN site http://msdn.com/concurrency
• Concurrent Basic on Channel 9
• Download Axum for Visual Studio 2008
• Axum team blog
• MSDN Flash eBook 13 of the “Best Technical Articles of 2008” (also http://bit.ly/flashebook1)
• MSDN Flash Podcast Pilot For feedback (also http://bit.ly/flashpod1)
• Sign up to the UK MSDN Flash newsletter – its technical! trust me!

P.S. The session didn’t quite go to plan as it turned out I had too much content for the slot. However it was enjoyable and there were lots of good questions from the audience (and nice biscuits).