Microsoft TPL Dataflow for Windows Phone

Question

As we know Microsoft TPL Dataflow supports platforms:

• .NET Framework 4.5
• .NET for Windows Store apps
• Portable Class Libraries

but there is NO Windows Phone 8 support.

What are the alternatives to replace BufferBlock<>, etc.?

Answer 1

Supporting TPL Dataflow on Windows Phone is on our backlog. The reason it's not supported is because one of its dependencies hasn't been implemented for Windows Phone yet (namely concurrent collections). However, we believe we could either remove this dependency or port concurrent collections as well.

I've filed a user voice item for it. Please share & vote -- it helps us to prioritize this work.

Update

I’m happy to announce that we've released a preview that includes support for Windows Phone 8.

Answer 2

One alternative is the Reactive Framework. It actually is very similar to Dataflow. In fact it's so similar, that Dataflow includes AsObservable() and AsObserver() extension methods on its blocks that allow it to interoperate with Reactive Framework. And it's a NuGet package available on Windows Phone.