What is the future of parallel programming in .Net?

Stephen Toub, who I interviewed on this blog previously, has written an article for the August issue of MSDN Magazine about the future of parallel programming in .NET. He starts by challenging the idea that managed languages shouldn’t be used for parallel programming. They provide a safe and rapid development environment for everyone, and in [...]

Stephen Toub interview Part 2: How Async and TPL Dataflow help you write parallel programs

Yesterday, I posted part one of our two-part interview with Stephen Toub, Principal Architect on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft. In this second part, he tells us about Async and TPL Dataflow, the public reaction to them, and how easy language extensions can make it for developers to parallel program. Softtalkblog: Async and [...]

Stephen Toub from Microsoft lifts the lid on .NET, Async and TPL Dataflow

Stephen Toub is Principal Architect on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft.  His team develops runtimes, libraries, compilers, and tools that enable developers to more easily and better parallelise their software. I caught up with him by email for a chat about .NET, Async and The Task Parallel Library Dataflow (TPL Dataflow), and how [...]

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