title: Microsoft's CCR vs Task Parallel Library
body: <p>Microsoft has at least two different approches to improved support for concurrent operations.</p>
  
  <p>1) Is the Concurrency Coordination Runtime (CCR) which is part of Microsoft Robotics Studio and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ccrdss/" rel="noreferrer">CCR &amp; DSS Toolkit</a> </p>
  
  <p>2) Task Paralell Library (<a href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/03/27/task-parallel-library-beta-1/" rel="noreferrer">TPL</a>) (Part of .NET 4.0 and now in Beta 1 release) </p>
  
  <p>I would like to know if anyone has experience with these two different pieces of software and would compare and contrast them?</p>