Northeast Roadshow: Parallel Programming with .NET 4

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.

Outline:

• 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.