The download and support page for the Parallel Framework. Version history is maintained here and the latest versions are available for download. The Parallel Framework enables .Net users to write code using task parallelism and get the most out of a CPU. It's free of charge and available to anyone. Documentation and source code included.

This article takes a dive into basic parallel programming with tasks. It also provides a lightweight parallel framework and describes how to use it to enable you to easily write parallel software yourself. After reading this article, you should be able to write code using parallelism. Examples in C# .Net included.

How to enable tarpitting on your SMTP server for specific commands? This article describes how you can customize tarpitting using the AsyncCallback functionality provided by the sink interface.

Post about the online Marshalling Compiler. It takes a C style header and converts it into an import of a native DLL in managed C# code.

This article describes the issues (and solutions) around parallel programming with sockets and goes deeper into the difference between Concurrent vs Parallel, Threads vs Tasks and Imperative vs Functional. Example source code included.

How to use a native DLL (or C++ DLL) in your managed .Net code? This post shows which types are interoperable, how to import a DLL, how to pass strings, how to pass structures and how to de-reference pointers.

How to create a custom AUTH sink for Microsoft SMTP. The post shows you how the managed wrappers are used, how to read the protocol input, how to write protocol output, how to read additional lines of input after the bound event is done with the SetCallback method, how to create new authentication schemes, how to set the CommandStatus, how to use the session's propertybag, how to accept or decline within the protocol, and more...