Wednesday, May 18, 2011

TPL : Build your own TPL for Silverlight, WP7 and XBox 360

With this post, we will discover the Task Parallel Library (a library to simply manage your parallel developments with the .Net framework 4.0). But we will do this in a slightly different way. Indeed, we will totally rewrite it from scratch .

Of course, we will not do as well as the original TPL. We will focus on key concepts in order to understand how the TPL works.

We shall take advantage of writing our version to make it usable with multiple frameworks. To do that, we only need to install the Portable Library Tools. Once the latter installed, a new project appears in Visual Studio that will allow us to develop our TPL:

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