Getting started with multiple processor C++ programing

Question

After many years developing VC++ aplications for my own business I am trying to come to grips with multi-thread development using C++ and VS 2010 beta 2. I am finding that much of the syntax is either actually new, or just new to me (in that I have had no reason to use it before). Also, I feel in need of a "Getting started with multi-thread programming in C++" document, or such like.

I remember when I was first starting to use MFC I found the on-line documentation contained an excellent introduction to the Document/View architecture, which quickly got me up and running. Can anyone direct me to a similar resource for parallel programming (a much wider scope, I realise), either buried in the current MSDN documentation, or as a Microsoft or third party publication?

The documentation of individual classes in MSDN is fine; it's just that I find it difficult to work out how it all hangs together.

I am running VS on a dual quad core machine (so 8 threads). I can work through sample code OK, but nevertheless feel I could speed up the learning process by finding a suitable "Getting started" document.

Thanks in advance
Richard

Answer 1

Hi Richard,
I hope you find these links good start point

Blogs:
o http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd504870(VS.100).aspx
o http://blogs.msdn.com/nativeconcurrency/
o Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/concrtextras

Videos:
o http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Parallel-Computing-in-Native-Code-New-Trends-and-Old-Friends/
o http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Asynchronous-Agents-for-Native-Code/
o http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/The-Concurrency-Runtime-Fine-Grained-Parallelism-for-C/
o http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/philpenn/concrtppl/

Thanks
Ameen

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mameen

Answer 2

Ameen, many thanks; plenty to chew on there!

Answer 3

Hi Charles,

All 7 links are working, please check your filewall settings, and try again?

Thanks

Ameen

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mameen

Answer 4

Mohamed, "Is the link expired" is one of the common phrases used by hidden link seo spammers. These spammers do not understand technical questions so they use vargue words that fit every forum.

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