Now that Visual Studio Beta2 has been available for a few weeks (see Rick’s earlier blog post ) I hope you’ve had a chance to experiment with one or both of the concurrent containers that were introduced:  concurrent_queue<T> and concurrent_vector<T>...

As you know from our previous posts, Visual Studio 2010 comes with great support for the task-based programming model and multi-threaded applications. Even though Daniel uses managed code in his examples, all the content he created for the Parallel Tasks...

Marko Radmilac, Senior Developer for Microsoft’s Concurrency Runtime, offers the following discussion of parallel iteration in the Concurrency Runtime: Let me say up front that this is my first blog, so I apologize if my writing format does not match...

Recently, I created 3 new sample message blocks that complement the Agents Library’s existing set and provide additional functionality. The three message blocks I selected to write, priority_buffer, bounded_buffer, and alternator, were based on customer...

In my previous blog post , I talked about the dynamic migration concept of the Concurrency Runtime’s (ConcRT) Resource Manager (RM). Today I will be demonstrating that concept in action and will focus on its performance characteristics. A Demonstration...

We’ve posted an update to our sample pack at http://code.msdn.com/concrtextras for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 . The newest thing is this drop of the sample pack are the three new header files in the ConcRTExtras folder.  Here’s what these files contain...