Have a long running set of discrete tasks: parsing 10s of thousands of lines from a text file, hydrating into objects, manipulating, and persisting. If I were implementing this in Java, I suppose...

I notice the Mailbox type is encapsulated and can only be used through the use of the MailboxProcessor. It implies that to have an agent to which I can post messages, I'm forced to have a single M...

Microsoft's Concurrency and Coordination Runtime quite literally saved a project that was running into major issues with deadlocking. Since then I find that I use it more and more frequently for al...

I'm parsing an .xml file like: <xml> <normalRange>100-200</normalRange> <value>83</value> </xml> In an .xls stylesheet I need to display a value indicating ...

Microsoft has at least two different approches to improved support for concurrent operations. 1) Is the Concurrency Coordination Runtime (CCR) which is part of Microsoft Robotics Studio and CCR &a...

Having a complex sequence of tasks, implementing error handling can quickly bloat the code when using try/catch blocks and stuff like Choice receivers on PortSet<ActualResult, Exception> for ...

I have recently been learning the in's and out's of the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR). Finding good learning resources for this relatively new technology has been quite difficult. (A q...

I've been trying to get my head around the CCR (Concurrency And Coordination Runtime) to see if it is worth learning. I program mostly in Vb.net and in most of the examples of using the CCR use t...