Sebastopol, CA—Teach yourself how to 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, Parallel Programming with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Step by Step (Microsoft Press, $34.99 USD) 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 application
- Perform live debugging of an application with parallel code
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Parallel Programming with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Step by Step Publisher: Microsoft Press By Donis Marshall Print ISBN: 9780735640603 Ebook ISBN: 9780735662612 Pages: 256 Print Price: $34.99 Ebook Price: $27.99 order@oreilly.com 1-800-998-9938 1-707-827-7000 |
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