Parallel Programming and the Virtual PC limitation
Posted by: The Moth,
on 08 Nov 2008 |
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The question of "How do I try/show the parallel bits in VS2010 outside of the VPC?" or variants of that keeps appearing in my inbox. That is because of Virtual PC's limitation to only run one core, which kind of sucks for parallel programming.Here is the story:1. The VS2010/.NET 4.0 CTP is only available as a VPC. Sorry, no directly installable bits that I can share. You can still use the VPC to get a feel for the APIs and tools, though.2. Parallel Extensions are now part of mscorlib.dll...