I attended the PDC breakout session named “Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic” given by Luca Bolognese, the Languages Group Program Manager. This session presented both features that exist in Visual Studio 2010 and features that would be added in future releases, however on my post I’ll concentrate on the new future directions. Compiler as a Service An interesting direction the Languages Group is taking is opening up the C# and VB compilers to custom extensions. An example of utilizing this...
In the PDC session “Manycore and .NET 4: A Match Made in Visual Studio 2010” by Stephan Toub from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing platform, he reviewed all the work done in the concurrency area for the Visual-Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 release. Parallel LINQ Parallel LINQ was not covered in this session as it is covered in a later one, though the “ AsParallel() ” extension method and “ ParallelEnumerable ” class were demonstrated. .NET 4.0 ThreadPool Many improvements were made to the .NET 4.0 ThreadPool...