Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Concurrent Collections

The .NET Framework 4.0 introduces the Task Parallel Library (TPL), which offers support for multicore CPU architectures. The library exposes new generic collections, via the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace that is new in .NET 4.0. Table 16.3 gives you a list of the new classes.

Table 16.3 Concurrent Collections

You get an overview of these collections in the appropriate chapters, but for completeness, you now have a full list of available collections.

Summary

Applications often require data access. You store data within classes and structures, but often you need to group a set of data and collections to help you ...