Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

• Author(s): Donis Marshall,
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Pages: 226
• ISBN_10: 0735640602
  ISBN_13: 9780735640603
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Computers / Languages / Visual BASIC , Computers / Programming / Parallel , Computers / Programming / Microsoft , Computers / Languages / .NET ,

Description:...

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

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.

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