TPL (Task Parallel Library) Dataflow CTP Released

Microsoft Downloads - TPL Dataflow Community Technology Preview

“A preview release of the new System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll.

TPLDataflow.msi: 934KB

Version: 1.0.4037

Date Published: 1/26/2011

Language: English

This is a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of a new .NET library for building asynchronous and parallel applications. This library, referred to as TPL Dataflow, is available for .NET 4 in the form of the System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll.

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Microsoft Downloads - Introduction to TPL Dataflow

“This document provides an introduction to a new .NET library for building parallel and concurrent applications.

TPLDataflow.docx: 284KB

Version: 1

Date Published: 10/28/2010

Language: English

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TPL Dataflow (TDF) is a new .NET library for building concurrent applications. It promotes actor/agent-oriented designs through primitives for in-process message passing, dataflow, and pipelining. TDF builds upon the APIs and scheduling infrastructure provided by the Task Parallel Library (TPL) in .NET 4, and integrates with the language support for asynchrony provided by C#, Visual Basic, and F#.

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The author of the above Introduction, Stephen Toub, was a guest on yesterday’s (1/25/20111) DotNetRocks podcast, Stephen Toub is more Parallel than Ever where the TPL Dataflow was discussed (along with other async stuff, like the Async CTP released at PDC10, etc).

 

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