There is a buffet of Parallel Programming patterns and conventions documentation. A good approach to digesting all the available information is to ingest a little bit at a time. Developers looking for a Parallel Programming Patterns and Conventions appetizer will find it in this article.

When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010, they included a first-class Parallel Debugger to offset the twist that the .NET Framework Task Parallel Library introduced to debugging. This article is a short guide to using the Debugger to debug an application built on the .NET Framework Task Parallel Library.

Learn about the Task Parallel Library Dataflow, a new member of Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative built on the Task Parallel Library.

Task Continuations allows developers to create interdependencies between tasks. The interdependencies can involve simple execution in response to task completion or aggregated exception handling among tasks. Read along to learn more.

Learn how .NET Framework 4.0 Parallel Computing will enable an upcoming C# programming feature and make asynchronous coding easier.

Learn core Task Parallel Library concepts; including how to use the Task and BlockingCollection classes