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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
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Controlling PLINQ Queries

PLINQ offers additional extension methods and features to provide more control over tasks that run queries, all exposed by the System.Linq.ParallelEnumerable class. In this section you get an overview of extension methods and learn how you can control your PLINQ queries.

Setting the Maximum Tasks Number

As explained previously in this chapter, the Task Parallel Library relies on tasks instead of threads, although working with tasks means scaling processing over multiple threads. You can specify the maximum number of tasks that can execute a thread by invoking the WithDegreeOfParallelism extension method and passing the number as an argument. The following code demonstrates how you can get the list of running processes ...

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