pluralsight - Introduction to Async and Parallel Programming in .NET 4

Tasks and Task-based Programming 00:57:47
Introductions and Agenda 01:04
Motivation: Responsiveness and Performance 02:57
Task-based model –- what's a task? 00:30
Creating a task 02:12
Execution model 03:16
Demo 1: programming for responsiveness 02:49
Demo 1: adding tasks 03:49
Demo 1: why did it crash? 01:11
Demo 1: first solution attempt 01:40
Demo 1: correct solution 05:03
Demo 1: summary 00:53
Creating tasks more efficiently 00:54
Demo 2: programming for performance 00:27
Demo 2: back in Visual Studio 02:23
Demo 2: shared variables 04:35
Demo 2: verifying correctness 03:06
Language support: lambda expressions 02:14
Implementation of lambdas 02:09
Language support: closures 01:47
Closures –- pass by reference! 02:50
Implementation of closures 03:47
Demo 3: reverse-engineer implementation 03:20
Code vs. Facade tasks 02:33
Summary 01:22
References 00:56

Working with Tasks: Creating, Waiting, and Harvesting Results 00:48:11
Introductions and Agenda 01:28
Technology Layers in .NET 4 01:11
Review: What's a Task, Code vs. Facade Tasks 02:12
Demo 1: Stock History App 00:27
Demo 1: App Overview 00:58
Demo 1: Creating Code Tasks 02:51
Demo 1: Creating Facade Tasks 04:10
Review Complete, Agenda for Rest of Module 00:24
Waiting for a Task to Finish 01:27
Demo 2: Waiting for Tasks to Finish 10:29
Harvesting Task Results –- the Result Property 01:16
Demo 3: Harvesting Task Results 04:34
Waiting on Multiple Tasks: WaitAll, WaitAny 02:05
WaitAllOneByOne Pattern –- Overlap Waiting with Result Processing 01:37
Demo 4: WaitAll 02:32
Demo 4: WaitAny 03:44
Task Composition –- .ContinueWith 01:31
An Example of using .ContinueWith 01:19
Many-to-one Task Composition: .ContinueWhenAll, .ContinueWhenAny 00:38
Demo 5: .ContinueWith 01:57
Summary and References 01:21

Coordinating, Canceling, and Exception Handling of Tasks 01:04:56
Introductions and Agenda 01:28
Exception Handling Basics 03:38
Exception Handling Design 03:53
TaskUnobservedException Event: example 02:11
Demo 1: Exception Handling 16:47
Task Cancellation 03:40
Demo 2: Task Cancellation 15:46
Task Priorities? Parent-Child Tasks? 01:30
Passing Data to Tasks: the wrong way… 02:10
Passing Data to Tasks: the correct way! 01:08
Demo 3: Passing Data and Outputting Results 11:30
Summary and References 01:15

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