Can you run off a super lightweight mobile encoding so I can synch with my WP7 and catch up on the train home?

Oh go on. I'll be your best friend.

posted by LukePuplett

Parallel Extensions in .NET 4.5

We will explore what's new in the Framework for parallel programming in 4.5.  Specifically, we'll dive into the new TPL Dataflow library and the various improvements around partitioning, cancellation, etc.

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Is that still too big?
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posted by Charles

Post(1);
// Not atomic.
DeclinePermanently();

Another producer could (and eventually will) sneak in between the calls. The only way to avoid that is code in another sync structure (i.e. lock), which your trying to avoid. Thoughts?

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posted by Toub

more TDF screencasts would also be awsome Perhaps custom TaskSchedulers based on TDF? seems like a very good fit

@felix9:

i knew it.... ron jacobs aaalmost slipped the name 4.5 in his wf talk at pdc hopefully that will include that xaml editor goodness they showed for silverlight [assuming its linked to a vs service pack]

hopefully they'll start talking about 4.5 soon

posted by aL_

Good eye. TPL Dataflow is in part based on and inspired by concepts from CCR, along with concepts from Axum and Visual C++ 10's Asynchronous Agents library, so you'll see a lot of similarities in terms of the kinds of problems you can solve.  The APIs were redesigned to fit in well with the rest of the .NET Framework and to take advantage of what the Task Parallel Library and other .NET goodies have to offer, as well as redesigned to incorporate some more scenarios and patterns we felt were important.

Regarding TaskSchedulers, sure, we'll see what we can pull together.  Note that these dataflow blocks can be targetted to run on any TaskScheduler instance, so you could configure a block to run on the thread pool, or on the UI, or in a concurrent/exclusive fashion, or whatever underlying semantics you want to achieve by plugging in a custom scheduler.  It sounds like you're interested in and asking about the other direction, implementing a TaskScheduler with a dataflow block (like ActionBlock)... you could certainly do that, too.

posted by Toub

its great to see elements of the CCR getting pulled closer to the framework, i always felt the ccr got underrated or otherwise didnt enter the developer mainstream.

you're right, i was referring to implementing TaskSchedulers using TDF, maybe like a throttling ui scheduler that ensures the ui thread doesnt get flooded with updates. Just a simple scheduler that process one task at the time [just an actionblock basically] is a good practical sample too i think. Really, all the custom schedulers in the parallel programming samples are good candidates

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I did not notice I was not logged in. Maybe previously I had to log in to comment at all. Thanks.

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