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Thread Management and other CLR TidBits

Every month, the CLR team gives us insight into the core of managed code, .NET programming best practices, technologies underlying the CLR and .NET Framework, and other tips and suggestions. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Erika Fuentes Read More...
Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 2:49 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Windows With C++: High-Performance Algorithms

Algorithm efficiency is not as straightforward as you might think. A well-designed algorithm on a single processor can often outperform an inefficient implementation on multiple processors. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Kenny Kerr walks Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 1 Comments

Fixing Concurrency Problems In Your Code

Correctly engineered concurrent code must live by an extra set of rules. Reads and writes from memory and access to shared resources need to be regulated so that conflicts do not arise. Additionally, threads often need to coordinate to get the job done. Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Parallel Programming with Visual Studio

Multicore systems are becoming increasingly prevalent, but the majority of software today will not automatically take advantage of this additional processing ability. And multithreaded programming, for anything but the most trivial of systems, is incredibly Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 12:34 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Design Considerations For Parallel Programming

Concurrent programming is notoriously difficult, even for experts. You have all of the correctness and security challenges of sequential programs plus all of the difficulties of parallelism and concurrent access to shared resources. In the October 2008 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 4:58 PM by tdorsey | 1 Comments
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.NET Matters: Asynchronous I/O with WebClient

System.IO.File is a handy helper class for reading and writing data, but its methods support only synchronous operation. Is there an easy way to provide File’s functionality for asynchronous file I/O? In the July 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Stephen Read More...
Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Concurrent Affairs: Simplified APM With The AsyncEnumerator

In the November issue of MSDN Magazine, Jeffrey Richter demonstrates some recent additions to the C# programming language that make working with the APM significantly easier. In the June issue , Jeffrey introduces his AsyncEnumerator class , which intelligently Read More...
Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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.NET Matters: Asynchronous Stream Processing

Say you want to copy from one stream to another, using only the asynchronous methods on Stream. How can you loop such requests continually in order to process the whole stream? Is that even possible? In the March 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Stephen Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Concurrent Affairs: Simplified asynchronous programming model (APM) with C#

Performing I/O-bound operations asynchronously is key to producing scalable and responsive applications, and the APM allows you to use a very small number of threads to execute a large amount of work without blocking any of the threads. In the November Read More...
Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 12:00 PM by MSDNMagazine | 1 Comments
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Improve Scalability With New Thread Pool APIs

Windows Vista and the upcoming Windows Server 2008 include a new thread pool API that should make it much easier for developers to employ the thread pool effectively. In the October issue of MSDN Magazine, Robert Saccone shows you how the new thread pool Read More...
Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 2 Comments
 
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