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Application development Toolkit

Photos: Microsoft's new parallel programming toolkit

Peter Ibbotson ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 11 Nov 2008 10:11 GMT

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The C# message handler code that the VPL generates isn't too bad to deal with, although it's hidden within 20KB of additional code that sets up the service and tears it down. The VPL is fairly powerful and hides of a lot synchronisation from the casual Robotics programmer, but professionals may find that they no longer use it after a few initial projects.

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