Is Microsoft adding more features to exploit dual and quad core processors?

Question

The Microsoft .Net development platform has classes that allow the developer to create multithreaded applications but the current way opf doing so is complicated and not really a part of the languages themselve. Does anyone know if they're working any new keywords to make multithreading simpler and more integrated into VB.Net and C#

Answer 1

The thread class has ThreadAffinity member, if you change this your code can run on a different processor core. Also, for lock-free algorithms there are several existing functions. That being said, they could do a lot more for multi-core multi-threaded applications :) Personally, I would love to see OpenMP ported over for C# or other .net languages as that seems the best way to write mutli-core multi-threaded applications.