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One of the great features that crosses all of Parallel Extensions types is a consistent approach to cancellation (see http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/archive/2009/05/22/9635790.aspx ). In this post we explore some of the ways cancellation is used in Parallel
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A very interesting addition to .NET 4 is a set of new types that specifically assist with building cancellation-aware applications and libraries. The new types enable rich scenarios for convenient and safe cancellation, and help simplify situations that
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Along with the release of the .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 , we've just published a slew of samples that demonstrate using Parallel Extensions in a variety of ways. You can download these from Code Gallery at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples .
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Brad Abrams posted about a cool .NET Framework 4.0 poster which was distributed at the PDC last week and which you can download . Zoom in on the CORE section right in the middle for a glimpse into the parallelism support in .NET 4.0.
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Thanks to everyone who attended our PDC pre-conference session yesterday on parallelism and concurrency! We had a wonderful turnout at the event, and David, Joe, and I all had a terrific time. Attached to this post are the slides we presented. (It turns
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The June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions provides the first look at its 3 rd major piece, a set of coordination data structures we lovably refer to as CDS. It contains lightweight and scalable thread-safe data structures and synchronization primitives.
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