339b31b11d Calendar. It is written in an easy to read and friendly style. Chapter 4 deals with PLINQ and after a very brief introduction to LINQ it more or less just says - add AsParallel and let the system take care of it. It could also do with an early chapter discussing how parallel is done without the help of the TPL, even though this might cause some readers to say that it has veered off topic. Author: Donis MarshallPublisher: Microsoft PressPages: 226ISBN: 978-0735640603Aimed at: .NET developers new to parallel programmingRating: 4Pros: Good discussions and explanationsCons: Topic not suited to step-by-step approachReviewed by: Mike James. Drive. If you have have been afraid of venturing into the difficult and intimidating world of threads and locks then perhaps the relatively new .NET Task Parallel Library TPL is a better way. Where the author simply describes ideas the book works well. YouTube. Chapter 6 is about customizing the way the TPL operates and it probably isn't something every programmer needs to learn about.
Maps. Chapter 5 is about the new concurrent collections classes. Parallel Programming is an important topic and one for which we could all do with a more easy-to-understand introduction. Presenting the code with some description interwoven would have been more suitable. Here we learn about parallel tasks the TPL way of doing threads. This is a good introduction to the subject but it stays at a fairly high level - the actual details of low level locking and similar constructs aren't dealt with. Overall this is a good book that stops short of being a really good book. The account does stress where things can go wrong but perhaps not enough.
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