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Alvin Ashcraft
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Alvin Ashcraft

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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Introducing the TPL Dataflow library

The TPL Dataflow library has been available for as long as TPL itself. It was released in 2010 after .NET Framework 4.0 reached its RTM milestone. The members of the dataflow library are part of the System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow namespace. The dataflow library is intended to build on the basics of parallel programming that are provided in TPL, expanding to address data flow scenarios (hence the name of the library). The dataflow library is made up of foundational classes called blocks. Each data flow block is responsible for a particular action or step in the overall flow.

The dataflow library consists of three basic types of blocks:

  • Source blocks: These blocks implement the ISourceBlock<TOutput> interface. Source blocks can have their data read from the workflow you define.
  • Target blocks: This type of block implements the ITargetBlock<TInput> interface and is a data receiver.
  • Propagator blocks: These blocks act...
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Alvin Ashcraft

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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