Hands-On Lab

Introduction to the Parallel Extensions Library

Lab version:1.0.0

Last updated:1/4/2011

Contents

Overview

Exercise 1: Parallelize an Existing Algorithm using the Static Parallel Helper Class

Task 1 � Parallelizing a Long Running Service

Exercise 2: Create and Run Parallelized Tasks

Task 1 � Natively Running Parallelized Tasks

Task 2 � Using the Wait() and WaitAll() Methods

Task 3 � Using the IsCompleted Property

Task 4 � Using the ContinueWith() Method

Exercise 3: Use the Generic Task Class to Create and Run Tasks that Return a Value

Task 1 � Capturing a Task�s Return Value

Exercise 4: Parallelize LINQ Queries using PLINQ

Task 1 � Using the ParallelEnumerable Class� Static Methods to Parallelize LINQ

Task 2 � Using the ParallelEnumerable Class� Extension Methods to Parallelize LINQ

Task 3 � Using AsParallel() With Query Comprehension Syntax

Summary