this post is the first in a series about what's new in EF 6. great improvements are about to come with Entity Framework 6. it is a major release and the first one since EF become an open source. each post in the series will be dedicate to a single feature. this post will focus on a new EF a-sync...

Parallel programming can be tricky, both compiler and CPU's optimization can lead into a twilight zone's debugging.

Now a days computers are coming with multiple processors that enable multiple threads to be executed simultaneously to give performance of applications and we can expect significantly more CPUs in near future. If application is doing CPU intensive tasks and we find that one CPU is taking 100 %usage ...

A customized build process template that parallelizes a build by platform/configuration. That is, if you use it to build multiple platforms (e.g. “x86” and “x64”) and/or configurations (e.g. “Debug” and “Release”), it will distribute the build of each platform/configuration to a separate Build Agent...

On the last day of May I wrote about how to calculate prime numbers with LINQ in C#. To close that post I said that I’d use the primeNumbers delegate to evaluate PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) and measure the performance gains when the same calculation is done in parallel instead of in a sequential fashion. ...

This article takes a look at BlockingCollection<T>, one of the new, threadsafe collections coming in .Net 4.0. BlockingCollection<T> allows different threads to add-to/iterate-over the collection simultaneously while giving subscribers the option of blocking until more items are availab...

Microsoft has released the latest CTP for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework simplifies development by providing library-based support for introducing concurrency into applications written with any .NET language.