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Leverage Windows Server 2008 R2 "Server Core" as an Application Server! There are several configuration options to consider when developing native-code applications to run on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2.   Watch this demo…

Join Bill Colburn once again as he demonstrates useful analysis techniques within the VS2010 Concurrency Visualizer.  In this screencast, he demonstrates thread synchronization reports, unblocking stacks, and how to view crucial call sites.  He also demonstrates how to get to the…

Join Josh and Steve as they demonstrate how to safely cancel tasks in a parallel task execution scenario.CancellationToken and related constructs are new with .NET4 and Visual Studio 2010.Learn more about the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and keep abreast of Parallel Computing tools…

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…

Join Josh and Steve as they demonstrate how to use various concurrency-safe Collections classes.Collections and related constructs are new with .NET4 and Visual Studio 2010.Learn more about the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and keep abreast of Parallel Computing tools and…

Join Bill Colburn as he demonstrates useful features of the Concurrency Visualizer available in VS2010.   He discusses visualization of parallel-for loops, I/O reports, sorting the display of threads, and viewing thread affinity.Check-out the following additional…

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 (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…

Windows 7 introduces a new networking API with support for building SOAP based web services in native code. This session discusses the programming model, interoperability aspects with other implementations of WS-* protocols, and demonstrates various services and applications built using this…

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on…