Category Archives: Talk Examples

Blog posts that have example code from talks, presentations or conference sessions.

Aberdeen Developers – Introduction to Parallelisation

Posted on Thursday, 26 April, 2012 by Colin Mackay

Examples Here are all the examples from Thursday evening’s introductory talk on Parallelisation at the Aberdeen Developers User Group. Starting tasks Parallel.Invokeexample Parallel.Forexample Parallel.ForEachexample Basic PLINQexample Tasks within Tasks example Data Management Independent Object Graphsexample ConcurrentBagexample ConcurrentDictionary example Stopping Tasks … Continue reading →

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DDD Belfast Parallelisation Talk

Posted on Saturday, 1 October, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Examples Here are all the examples from Saturday’s introductory talk on Parallelisation at DDD Belfast. Starting tasks Parallel.Invoke example Parallel.For example Parallel.ForEach example Basic PLINQ example Tasks within Tasks example Data Management Independent Object Graphs example ConcurrentBag example ConcurrentDictionary example … Continue reading →

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SQL Server User Group: SQL Injection Attacks

Posted on Wednesday, 29 June, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Examples The examples were run against a copy of the Adventure Works database. Basic Demo (ASP.NET MVC / C# / Visual Studio 2010) Second Order Demo (WinForms / C’# / Visual Studio 2010) Required Tables For the Second Order Demo … Continue reading →

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DDD South West Parallelisation Talk Overview

Posted on Saturday, 11 June, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Examples Here are all the examples from Saturday’s introductory talk on Parallelisation at DDD South West 2011. Starting tasks Parallel.Invoke example Parallel.For example Parallel.ForEach example Basic PLINQ example Tasks within Tasks example Data Management Independent Object Graphs example ConcurrentBag example … Continue reading →

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Parallelisation Talk examples – Cancelling Tasks

Posted on Saturday, 11 June, 2011 by Colin Mackay

This example showed what happens when tasks are cancelled. In this example, some tasks will be able to run to completion, others will be cancelled and other won’t even get a chance to start because the cancellation token was signalled … Continue reading →

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DDD Scotland Parallelisation Talk Overview

Posted on Sunday, 8 May, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Follow Up I was asked a question during the talk I wasn’t immediately able to answer which I’ve now found the definite answer. What happens to parallel tasks running in the background when the application exits? Examples Here are all … Continue reading →

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Scottish Developers Parallelisation Talk Overview

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Here are all the examples from this evening’s introductory talk on Parallelisation at Scottish Developers. Starting tasks Parallel.Invoke example Parallel.For example Parallel.ForEach example Basic PLINQ example Tasks within Tasks example Data Management Independent Object Graphs example ConcurrentBag example ConcurrentDictionary example … Continue reading →

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Parallelisation Talk Example – Aggregate Exceptions

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

The two code examples here show what happens when exceptions are thrown within tasks that are not handled within the task. In each case the task that has the error throws an exception. In the first example, only one task … Continue reading →

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Parallelisation talk example – Independent Object Graphs

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Parallelised code works best when data is not shared. This example shows a simple piece of parallel code where each task operates independently on its own object graph without dependencies on other objects outside its own graph. Each iteration of … Continue reading →

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Prallelisation Talk Example – Tasks within Tasks

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

In this example I’m showing the launching of further tasks within an existing task. The Main method launches a single task (of course, it would likely be many tasks in a real system) which is implemented by MainTask and then … Continue reading →

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