Prior to Visual Studio 2010, correctly introducing parallelism into libraries and applications has been difficult, time consuming, and error-prone. However, as the hardware industry shifts towards multi-core and manycore processors, the key to high-performance applications is parallelism. Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 offer solutions to help make writing parallelized and concurrent applications significantly easier. In this session, we explore new runtimes, libraries, and tools available in Visual Studio 2010, providing a fast-paced tour through the next generation of parallel development on the Microsoft platform.