I'm implementing a worker role on Azure which needs to delete blobs from Azure storage. Let's assume my list of blobs has about 10K items. The simplest synchronous approach would probably be: Par...

I am using TPL DataFlow and an ActionBlock to create parallelism. The reason for using TPL DataFlow is because it supports asynchronicity, except I can't get it to work. var ab = new ActionBlock&l...

It should be something very natural to have, I was wondering if there is a ready implementation of Prioritized BufferBlock from TPL DataFlow library?

I would like to know whether it is possible to change the completion state of data blocks? For example, I marked a var block = new BufferBlock<int>(); data block complete with block.Complet...

I am looking for the .NET 4.0 version of the TPL dataflow library. The Nuget package has a 4.0 version of the library, but it seems to target .NET 4.5. I found various references to a 4.0 version...

I was looking for a lightweight, in process, async message bus and came across TPL Dataflow. My current implementation is below (full example at https://gist.github.com/4416655). public class Bu...

I want to implement a prioritised ActionBlock<T>. So that i can Conditionally give priority to some TInput items by using a Predicate<T>. I read Parallel Extensions Extras Samples and G...

I have a class Receiver with an ActionBlock: public class Receiver<T> : IReceiver<T> { private ActionBlock<T> _receiver; public Task<bool> Send(T item) { if(_receive...

I am confused about the difference between sending items through Post() or SendAsync(). My understanding is that in all cases once an item reached the input buffer of a data block, control is retur...

I have a BufferBlock to which I post messages: public class DelimitedFileBlock : ISourceBlock<string> { private ISourceBlock<string> _source; _source = new BufferBlock<string>(...

Background I have an application that receives periodic data dumps (XML files) and imports them into an existing database using Entity Framework 5 (Code First). The import happens via EF5 rather t...

I just want to learn both and how to use them together. I understand that they can complement each other I just could not find an example of someone actually doing it.

I just upgraded Visual Studio 11 Beta to the new Visual Studio 2012 RC and have problems referencing TPL Dataflow. First, I tried to reference Dataflow as I did previously, by adding a reference f...

cross-posted to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tpldataflow/thread/89b3f71d-3777-4fad-9c11-50d8dc81a4a9 I know... I'm not really using TplDataflow to its maximum potential. ATM I'm s...

I'm specifically looking at writing some signal processing algorithms in one or other, or maybe some combination of both of these. Performance isn't a big concern, clarity of expressing intent is ...