Have you ever wanted to code less and get more work done? Wouldn't it be cool if the tools we used just understood what we wanted to do and then adapted to the runtime environment to get the work done as efficiently as possible? With the increase in the number of cores on a processor it is becoming more important to take advantage of the available resources; however, coding for the various runtime scenarios can be quite painful. Tools like Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) can let developers provide the declarative instructions for an operation and the tool can determine how best to use the available processor cores. Come see an introduction to PLINQ and see how you can get more work done with less code.
Michael Wood is a Microsoft Practice Director for Strategic Data Systems in Centerville, OH, but lives across the river in Kentucky. He has been working in .Net since pre-Beta 2 back in 2001. He has contributed to the 'Visual Studio Hacks' book from O'Reilly and publishes a series of blog posts called the .Net Nugget. Michael is a Founding Director and the current Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User Group as well as the founder of the Cincinnati Software Architecture Special Interest Group. He is also a founding member of the software architecture web resource nPlus1 (
http://nplus1.org). You can follow Michael on Twitter under
@mikewo as well as visit his blog at
http://mvwood.com.
We will be raffling:
1 copy of Visual Studio Pro
1 copy of Expression Studio 2
2 copies of Vista Ultimate
1 Microsoft fingerprint reader
And more!
Have you ever wanted to code less and get more work done? Wouldn't it be cool if the tools we used just understood what we wanted to do and then adapted to the runtime environment to get the work done as efficiently as possible? With the increase in the number of cores on a processor it is becoming more important to take advantage of the available resources; however, coding for the various runtime scenarios can be quite painful. Tools like Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) can let developers provide the declarative instructions for an operation and the tool can determine how best to use the available processor cores. Come see an introduction to PLINQ and see how you can get more work done with less code.
Michael Wood is a Microsoft Practice Director for Strategic Data Systems in Centerville, OH, but lives across the river in Kentucky. He has been working in .Net since pre-Beta 2 back in 2001. He has contributed to the 'Visual Studio Hacks' book from O'Reilly and publishes a series of blog posts called the .Net Nugget. Michael is a Founding Director and the current Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User Group as well as the founder of the Cincinnati Software Architecture Special Interest Group. He is also a founding member of the software architecture web resource nPlus1 (
http://nplus1.org). You can follow Michael on Twitter under
@mikewo as well as visit his blog at
http://mvwood.com.
We will be raffling:
1 copy of Visual Studio Pro
1 copy of Expression Studio 2
2 copies of Vista Ultimate
1 Microsoft fingerprint reader
And more!