Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step  (English, Paperback, Marshall D)

Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of parallel programming

Teach yourself how to help improve application performance by using parallel programming techniques in Visual Studio 2010—one step at a time. Ideal for experienced programmers with little or no parallel programming experience, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating applications that optimize the use of multicore processors.

Discover how to:

• Apply techniques to help increase your application’s speed and efficiency
• Simplify the process of adding parallelism with the Task Parallel Library (TPL)
• Execute several tasks concurrently with various scheduling techniques
• Perform data queries in parallel with PLINQ
• Use concurrent collections in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for data items
• Extend classes in the TPL to meet the specific requirements of your applications
• Perform live debugging of an application with parallel code

Resource Roadmap:

• Developer Step by Step Hands-on tutorial covering fundamental techniques and features Practice exercises Prepares and informs new-to-topic programmers

Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Parallel Programming
2. Task Parallelism
3. Data Parallelism
4. PLINQ
5. Concurrent Collections
6. Customization
7. Reports and Debugging