It's exciting to see that the Microsoft Biology Foundation 1.0 has been released! You can read more about it here. From MBF's Web site:"The Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework, initially aimed at the area of Genomics research. Currentl...
In preparation for enhancing Visual Studio design-time experience testing, we’d like to collect a catalog of real world applications to use for performance, stress, and ad hoc testing by the Web Platform and Tools team. We’re looking for small, medium, and large applications covering a range of architectures, languages, frameworks...
The .NET Framework 4 introduces a new mechanism for cancellation of operations, based on new types CancellationToken and CancellationTokenSource. This cancellation mechanism is used across the parallel programming libraries: tasks, concurrent collections, and PLINQ queries.Using Cancellation Support in .NET Framework 4, written by Mike Li...
About six months ago, we posted on this blog to ask for details on if/how you're using Parallel Extensions, and we got a great number of awesome responses... thanks!! As that blog post has long since faded into distant memory, we're asking again :)Are you using Parallel Extensions, the parallelism support introduced with .NET 4? e.g. Parallel...
