The document discusses new parallel programming features in Visual Studio 2010 including the Task Parallel Library and Parallel LINQ. It covers key aspects like explicit and implicit parallelism, synchronization mechanisms, coordination data structures, concurrency patterns, and debugging and profiling tools. The next generation of parallel technologies and tools for tasks like task scheduling, debugging parallel stacks and tasks, and profiling thread utilization are introduced in Visual Studio 2010 with the .NET 4.0 release.