PLINQ Available?

Hi There,

I am in the process of developing some heavy algorithms on the backend of a website through a WCF service. Can I optimize my algorithm and take advantage of PLINQ for my datasets? My understanding this takes advantage of the multi-core hardware. And if so what .NET version is this in? I know .NET 4 will have this functionality included in that release.

Any feedback would be appreciated and thanks in advance!

Thanks,
Jake

 

You're right, PLINQ is a .NET 4.0 feature and currently available for preview / playtime in Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET framework 4 beta 1 CTP.

As you probably already know the current live production platform at DASP is .NET3.5, however there is an open beta program accepting sign up requests at http://labs.discountasp.net/ if you want to try some new stuff out.

I don't think anyone really knows Microsoft's internal plan for VS2010 and .NET 4 RTM but since the two are so tightly related, I'm sure we must expect them soon..a 2010+ release would be very embarrassing. If anyone has any inside information then please do tell.

 

A slight contradiction to my first post: PLINQ will be officially released with .NET 4.0 but I see there is existing support for it in the June 2008 CTP release intended for use with .NET framework 3.5. This means that theoretically this will work on the current DASP live platform providing its assemblies are bin deployable.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FD-593D-4B3C-B055-694C50D2B0F3&displaylang=en

 

...Yup That should work.
I tested it last year on DASP servers for Debra while it was on the ASP.NET Sandbox.