Pluralcast # 11 : Parallel Programming in .NET 4

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Stephen Toub joined me for a great discussion about the new Parallel Programming features in .NET 4. Formally known as the Parallel Extensions Library for .NET, these new features have graduate from DevLabs and are available out of the box in Visual Studio 2010.

These exciting new features in .NET help developers take full advantage of all those cores now shipping in  modern computers. It’s massive threading made easy.Given the complexity of this topic, I was fairly concerned the message simply wouldn’t translate on an audio-only podcast. Stephen is so good at explaining things my fears were quickly allayed. Between his explanation and the ease of using the tools, even I could understand how to write parallel code!

Stephen’s Links

• Stephen’s Blog
• Parallel Programming in Managed Code Blog
• Parallel Computing Developer Center
• Sample Code for Parallel Programming with .NET Framework 4
• Whitepaper: Patterns for Parallel Programming: Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4
• Axum
• CHESS
• F# Power Pack

Pluralsight OnDemand! subscribers can see a small taste of some of these new features in this screencast: Profiling Performance of Multi-Threaded Applications in Visual Studio 2010. If you enjoy this video, you may also like this article from members of the Parallel Computing Platform Team, Optimizing Parallel Applications Using the Concurrency Visualizer.