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Join Josh and Steve as they demonstrate how to use the new .NET4 BlockingCollection<T> class in class Producer/Consumer parallel computing scenarios.BlockingCollection<T> is one of many new thread-safe data-structures available with .NET4 and Visual Studio 2010.Learn more about the…

Join James Rapp once again as he dives deeper into the new parallel performance analysis tools available in Visual Studio 2010.  In this video, he discusses ways of managing the quantity of data presented by the profiler and how to obtain meaningful statistics about your parallel…

Visual Studio 2010 (currently in beta) includes new Parallel Performance Analysis tools. The new Profiler is a must-have tool for Developers interested in designing new "many-core" parallel-computing applications. Join James as he illustrates the profiler, profiling-options, and…

Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core introduces support for subsets of the 2.0/3.0/3.5 .NET Framework in addition to a number of other new optional features and roles.   These additions extend the role of Server Core system deployments to not only enterprise network service hosting but…

You've learned about many of the new features of the latest version of the Windows kernel in the Mark Russinovich Inside Windows 7 conversation here on Channel 9. One of Mark’s favorite kernel innovations is the way the Windows 7 kernel manages scheduling of threads and the underlying…

The Asynchronous Agents Library (or just Agents Library) provides a programming model that enables you to increase the robustness of concurrency-enabled application development. The Agents Library is a C++ template library that promotes an actor-based programming model and in-process…

The C++ Concurrency Runtime is new with Visual Studio 2010 and currently in beta. The runtime encapsulates and extends many new operating system features including NUMA resource locality and User-Mode-Scheduling.  The Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) provides an imperative…

The IIS WebDAV extension module incorporates new features that enable web authors to publish content easier than before, and offers web administrators more security and deployment options. Windows Server 2008 R2 incorporates the WebDAV extension module feature. All you have to do is to…

Windows Server 2008 R2 (i.e. "Windows 7 Server") introduces significant advancements in Server Power Management capabilities. You may never win a Nobel prize for building an application that plays well with Server Power Management policies nor by configuring a power-optimized…

This video demonstrates the use of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework.   Parallel Extensions requires .NET 3.5 and the final version will be part of the .NET 4.0 Framework when released.  These extensions introduce new classes and functionality into  the…