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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
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Last week Visual Studio 2010 Beta was released for download . Since Beta1, the team has been pretty busy adding enhanced functionality to make you more productive at expressing parallelism in your applications and improving the quality and performance
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In my previous blog post , I talked about key concepts of the Concurrency Runtime’s (ConcRT) resource manager, starting with a definition of a resource. I then explained why an application might be composed of a number of scheduler instances. Eventually
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In my previous posts, I addressed the motivation behind using concurrency runtime’s synchronization primitives and also introduced Critical Section and reader writer lock. In this blog, I will cover concurrency runtime’s event. Event This is a bi-state
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Following the release of Visual Studio 2010, we've just published a set of sample applications for using the Parallel Pattern Library, the Agents Library and the Concurrency Runtime on code gallery. These supplement the documentation and samples provided
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The latest issue of msdn magazine includes an article that I wrote which illustrates implementing the Dining Philosophers purely in message passing and without using any explicit locking. If you have Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 installed, you can also download
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 has been released, and it is a full install version . The team has been busy, busy busy since the CTP release last fall to deliver most of the APIs and objects we’ve blogged about here into Beta1. So I wanted to take a moment
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In my previous post, I addressed the motivation behind using concurrency runtime’s synchronization primitives and also introduced Critical Section. In this blog, I will cover concurrency runtime’s reader writer lock. Reader Writer Lock This class enables
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In a concurrent world multiple entities work together to achieve a common goal. A common way to interact and coordinate is to use shared data. However, shared data must be accessed carefully. This can be achieved through synchronization, primarily using:
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In my previous blog post, I gave an introduction to the native concurrency runtime in Visual Studio 2010. For a general picture of the native concurrency runtime, and high level roles of each of its components please refer to this post. Today, I will
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Microsoft has recently released a beta for Windows 7, and a look at the official web site ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx ) will show you a pretty impressive list of new features and usability enhancements. I encourage you to
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Charles Torre just posted a great Channel9 session with Windows kernel architect Dave Probert on functionality new to Windows7: User Mode Scheduled (UMS) Threads. Much like fibers, UMS threads enable a user mode scheduler (like the Concurrency Runtime)
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Last week, Don McCrady, Damien Watkins from the C++ team and I sat down with Charles from Channel9 and chatted about the Concurrency Runtime, new C++ work in Visual Studio 2010 and how our teams are working together. As Charles pointed out, we also touched
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In this blog I will be giving an introduction to the native concurrency support in Visual Studio 2010. My motivation is that an architectural understanding of the features will enable the reader to make the most of the underlying infrastructure. In future
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Last week, we blogged about the Visual Studio 2010 CTP which includes the Concurrency Runtime, the Parallel Pattern Library and the Asynchronous Agents Library which is available as a Virtual PC image. As the Parallel Extensions to .NET team blogged yesterday,
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