I'm in the middle of performance testing a critical section of my project, when I notice a whole lot of extra threads being used to to perform WaitOrTimerCallback operations.
On closer inspection I can see that these are being spawned by my ASMX client proxy class for operations on a remote server.
I was under the impression that these were using IO completion ports like all of my other asynchronous IO Calls.
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 quick Google search brings up "Credence Clearwater Revival" as the top result!)
Some of the resources I have found:
Do you have any good learning resources for the CCR?
I really hope that Microsoft will publish more material, so far it has been too Robotics specific. I believe that MS needs to acknowledge that most people are using the CCR in isolation from the DSS and Robotics Studio.
I also published this list at StackOverflow
I'm not sure if you are aware of this or not, but Microsoft has launched a new service/program called BizSpark.
BizSpark is basically a kind of sponsorship program offered to startup companies working with the MS Technology stack. They offer free access to their MSDN Subscription service for up to 3 years while you meant their restrictions and stick to their TOS.
For our small company this has been a God send. I can finally get access to the development tools I need to launch our service!
Thanks Microsoft for giving back to the community!