Patch for VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue Now Available - ScottGu's Blog

Crash Symptom

If you are encountering frequent VS 2010 crashes when you are typing in the editor while Intellisense is popping up and/or being dismissed then you are running into this issue.

Patch Now Available

This morning we made available a VS 2010 RC patch which fixes this issue. You can download and run it here.

Please apply it if you are encountering any crashes with the VS 2010 RC, or if you have a tablet, multi-touch, screen-reader or external devices attached (including Wacom tablets, phones/ipods, and others that connect via USB).

Please make sure to submit any issues you encounter with the VS 2010 RC to us via the connect.microsoft.com web-site. Once you’ve entered the issue there please send me email (scottgu@microsoft.com) with a pointer to the issue and I’ll make sure the appropriate team follows up quickly.

Hope this helps,

Scott

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Parallel Programming with .NET : FAQ :: Which .NET language is best for parallelism?

The new parallelization support in the .NET Framework 4 is implemented purely in libraries and the runtime and does not require special compiler support. Therefore, it is available to all compliant .NET languages. This includes all of the managed languages that ship as part of Visual Studio 2010 (Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual F#, and C++/CLI) as well as other Microsoft-provided languages (e.g. IronPython) and 3^rd-party developed languages. In fact, our samples available athttp://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples include examples in multiple languages.

However, some of the APIs in .NET 4 have been designed with certain language capabilities in mind. For example, C#, Visual Basic, and F# all support lambda expressions and closures, which enable easily defining the bodies for Tasks and parallel loops. Query comprehensions in C# and Visual Basic, and sequences in F#, can help to write cleaner, more elegant PLINQ queries. F#’s support for asynchronous workflows and its provision of immutability of data by default are geared towards making it easier to write highly concurrent applications.

In summary, you can introduce parallelism in your application using any .NET language. Which one is best still depends on your scenario.

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Parallel Programming with .NET : FAQ :: Which .NET language is best for parallelism?

Parallel Programming with .NET : "Parallelism in .NET" Series by Reed Copsey, Jr.

Parallel Programming with .NET : "Parallelism in .NET" Series by Reed Copsey, Jr.

Reed Copsey, Jr. has been writing a great series of articles on parallelism with the .NET Framework 4. The articles provide the insights of an expert developer who has been using parallelism with .NET to speed up real-world programs. Recommended reading.

Parallelism in .NET

Introduction

Part 1, Decomposition

Part 2, Simple Imperative Data Parallelism

Part 3, Imperative Data Parallelism: Early Termination

Part 4, Imperative Data Parallelism: Aggregation

Part 5, Partitioning of Work

Part 6, Declarative Data Parallelism

Part 7, Some Differences between PLINQ and LINQ to Objects

Part 8, PLINQ’s ForAll Method