Northeast Roadshow: Parallel Programming with .NET 4

Posted: Jun 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
By: Chris Bowen
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This screencast with Chris Bowen is an overview of writing parallel code using the new classes and features available in .NET Framework 4 and the tools in Visual Studio 2010. Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, this walks through the basics of parallel programming, Tasks, PLINQ, data structures, debugging, and performance analysis.

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Introduction
[1:40] Parallelism
[3:29] Contention
[5:25] Threads, Thread Pool, Tasks & the TPL
[8:12] Demo - The Task Class
[14:42] Demo - PLINQ
[20:18] Data Structures & Primitives
[21:33] Demo - Barrier Class & CancellationSource/Token
[25:36] The Parallel Class
[27:09] Demo - Parallel Invoke() & For()
[30:04] Demo - Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Stacks & Parallel Tasks Windows
[32:41] Demo - Visual Studio 2010 Concurrency Visualizer
[39:08] Other Tools & Technologies for Parallel Computing
[40:57] Resources & Conclusion

Slides for this session, and other Northeast Roadshow sessions, can be found on the Code Gallery.

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