Concurrency Runtime Walkthroughs

The scenario-based topics in this section show how to use many of the features of the Concurrency Runtime.

In This Section

• Walkthrough: Connecting Using Tasks and XML HTTP Requests
  Shows how to use the IXMLHTTPRequest2 and IXMLHTTPRequest2Callback interfaces together with tasks to send HTTP GET and POST requests to a web service in a Windows Store app.

• Walkthrough: Creating an Agent-Based Application
  Describes how to create a basic agent-based application.

• Walkthrough: Creating a Dataflow Agent
  Demonstrates how to create agent-based applications that are based on dataflow, instead of on control flow.

• Walkthrough: Creating an Image-Processing Network
  Demonstrates how to create a network of asynchronous message blocks that perform image processing.

• Walkthrough: Implementing Futures
  Shows how to asynchronously compute values for later use.

• Walkthrough: Using join to Prevent Deadlock
  Uses the dining philosophers problem to illustrate how to use the concurrency::join class to prevent deadlock in your application.

• Walkthrough: Removing Work from a User-Interface Thread
  Demonstrates how to improve the performance of an MFC application that draws the Mandelbrot fractal.

• Walkthrough: Using the Concurrency Runtime in a COM-Enabled Application
  Demonstrates how to use the Concurrency Runtime in an application that uses the Component Object Model (COM).

• Walkthrough: Adapting Existing Code to Use Lightweight Tasks
  Shows how to adapt existing code that uses the Windows API to create and execute a thread to use a lightweight task.

• Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Message Block
  Describes how to create a custom message block type that orders incoming messages by priority.

Related Sections

• Concurrency Runtime
  Introduces the concurrent programming framework for Visual C++.