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Timeout for Action in Parallel.ForEach iteration

I have something similar to this in my code: Parallel.ForEach(myList, new ParallelOptions { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = 4 }, item => { Process(item); }); The …

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TPL vs Reactive Framework

When would one choose to use Rx over TPL or are the 2 frameworks orthogonal? From what I understand Rx is …

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Is it true that for long running processes it is better to do thread manually instead of threadpool?

I read on the other day that for long-running tasks my best bet is to manually create threads instead of …

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Problems with references to TPL Dataflow and TPL in VS 2012 RC

I just upgraded Visual Studio 11 Beta to the new Visual Studio 2012 RC and have problems referencing TPL Dataflow. First, I …

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Is there a generic Task.WaitAll?

I start a few parallel tasks, like this: var tasks = Enumerable.Range(1, 500) .Select(i => Task.Factory.StartNew<int&…

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Track progress when using TPL's Parallel.ForEach

What is the best way way to track progress in the following long total = Products.LongCount(); long current = 0; double Progress = 0.0; …

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TPL Dataflow, whats the functional difference between Post() and SendAsync()?

I am confused about the difference between sending items through Post() or SendAsync(). My understanding is that in all cases …

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Running a WPF control in another thread

I am using a visual control in my project that is from a library that I do not have the …

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What do I do with async Tasks I don't want to wait for?

I am writing a multi player game server and am looking at ways the new C# async/await features can …

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StaTaskScheduler and STA thread message pumping

TL;DR: A deadlock inside a task run by StaTaskScheduler. Long version: I'm using StaTaskScheduler from ParallelExtensionsExtras by Parallel Team, …

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