title: Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) Learning Resources
body: <p>I have recently been learning the in's and out's of the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905450.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR).</a>
  Finding good learning resources for this relatively new technology has been quite difficult.</p>
  <p>(A quick google search brings up &quot;Creedence Clearwater Revival&quot; as the top result!)</p>
  <p>Some of the resources I have found:</p>
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.robochamps.com/rc/data/learningarea/141076-cover-df.pdf" rel="noreferrer">Free e-book chapter</a> from WROX on the Robotics Developer Studio</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/Using-CCR" rel="noreferrer">Good Article/post</a> on InfoQ</li>
  <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pollrobots/archive/2008/07/22/ccr-utilities-part-1.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Robotic's Member blog</a></li>
  <li>Very active <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/roboticsccr/threads/" rel="noreferrer">MSDN CCR Forum</a> - Got plenty of help from here!</li>
  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/magazine/cc163556.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Great MSDN Magazine</a> by Jeffrey Richter</li>
  <li>Official <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905450.aspx" rel="noreferrer">CCR User Guide</a> - Didn't find this very helpful</li>
  <li>Great <a href="http://iodyne.blogspot.com/" rel="noreferrer">blogging series</a> on CCR</li>
  <li>iodyner <a href="http://iodyne.blogspot.com/" rel="noreferrer">CCR Related Blog</a> - Update: <a href="http://iodyner.spaces.live.com/" rel="noreferrer">Moved to here</a></li>
  <li>Eight or so <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/CCR/" rel="noreferrer">Videos</a> on Channel9.msdn.com</li>
  <li><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/ccrpatterns/" rel="noreferrer">CCR Patterns page</a> on MS Robotics Studio - I haven't read this yet</li>
  <li>4 x <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ccr">CCR Questions</a> on Stackoverflow - Most of the questions have been Mine! LOL</li>
  <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/msroboticsstudio/archive/2009/04/22/rds-2008-standard-edition-and-ccr-and-dss-toolkit-2008-available-on-msdn.aspx" rel="noreferrer">CCR and DSS toolkit</a> has now been released to MSDN Members</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Do you have any good learning resources for the CCR?</p>
  <p>I really hope that Microsoft will publish more material, so far it has been too Robotics specific.  I believe that MS needs to acknowledge that most people are using the CCR in issolation from the DSS and Robotics Studio.</p>
  <h2>Update</h2>
  <p>The Mix 2010 conference had a presentation by Myspace about how they have used the CCR framework in their middle tier.  They also open sourced the code base.</p>
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://datarelay.codeplex.com/" rel="noreferrer">MySpace DataRelay</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX04" rel="noreferrer">Mix Video Presentation</a></li>
  </ul>