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Extending Microsoft's Concurrency and Coordination Runtime with MSMQ
Join Microsoft's Concurrency and Coordination Runtime and MSMQ to coordinate work across processes on multiple computers.
Using the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ to Go Parallel
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Create Your Own Thread Pool
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