Microsoft regearing .Net for easy concurrency

Async is now available in a CTP that can run on the newest edition of Visual Studio. The download replaces the standard compiler with one that supports the new keywords.

The TPL Dataflow

The TPL Dataflow .Net library allows developers to break blocks of codes into what Shih called dataflow blocks. Dataflow blocks can act like agents, an instrumental concept in programming for parallel computing.

"This model of doing things is often referred to as data flow parallelism. In substance you are creating a computational network through which data will in the end flow," Shih said.

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