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Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Step by Step

Teach yourself how to help improve application performance by using parallel programming techniques in Visual Studio 2010-one step at a time. Ideal for experienced programmers with little or no parallel programming experience, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating applications that optimize the use of multicore processors.

Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of parallel programming.

Discover how to:

• Apply techniques to help increase your application´s speed and efficiency
• Simplify the process of adding parallelism with the Task Parallel Library (TPL)
• Execute several tasks concurrently with various scheduling techniques
• Perform data queries in parallel with PLINQ
• Use concurrent collections in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for data items
• Extend classes in the TPL to meet the specific requirements of your application
• Perform live debugging of an application with parallel code

The Table of Contents:

Introduction to Parallel Programming		1
Task Parallelism		19
Data Parallelism		59
PLINQ		89
Concurrent Collections		117
Customization		147
Reports and Debugging		181

Also available in German: Parallele Programmierung mit Visual Studio 2010 - Crashkurs

About the Author Donis Marshall:

Donis Marshall has more than 20 years of experience using Microsoft technologies to design and build enterprise software for leading companies in several industries. As a Microsoft MVP, he is recognized as an exceptional technical community leader who actively shares his real-world expertise with others. Experienced in training developers and engineers with Microsoft products, Donis is the author of Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Solid Code, and Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005.