Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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

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).

 

Related Past Post XRef:
PDC10 Async Round-up

Extra .Net 4 Parallel Extension goodness in the Parallel Extension Samples, with RTM updates and a few new Projects
“Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4” gets some VB love…
[Insert Three Hour Tour and/or TPL Report Joke Here] - “A Tour of Various TPL Options” – 28 page free ebook about parallel programming options in .Net via the Task Parallel Library (TPL)
TPL (That is, Task Parallel Library) Article of the Day: “Parent-Child Task Relationships in the .Net Framework 4”
“Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4” gets some VB love…
[.Net 4.0]: Get your Parallel Extensions here… All baked in and part of the Core…. Get your Task Parallel Library here…

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