Parallel Development in Visual Studio

What are symbols? Today we will be discussing how to configure your symbol path inside Visual Studio 2010.   One might ask, “Why do I need to do this?”   To answer that let us define what symbols are .   Here are some excerpts from http...

Whether you’re not very familiar with The Concurrency Visualizer, you’re bored and have 75 seconds to burn, or you’re interested to see me nervous in front of a camera, this 75 second video is a great use of your time (if I don’t say so myself). ...

In UI programming, it’s easy to unwittingly make inefficient use of computing resources by blocking or executing long running tasks on the main thread rather than dispatching work to worker threads when advantageous.   It is good practice to dispatch...

Ian Davis has written this blog entry , which investigates the performance of several matrix multiplication implementations, including an implementation parallelized with the Task Parallel Library.  It’s a very interesting and informative read; be...

Visual Studio 2010 is finally here and those of us who worked on the Concurrency Visualizer are thrilled about its debut (in VS2010 Premium and Ultimate)! We truly hope that our hard work pays off for you, enabling you to solve your toughest parallel...