Thread queues for dummies

Question

I have what I assume is a pretty common threading scenario:

• I have 100 identical jobs to complete
• All jobs are independent of each other
• I want t

Answer 1

I would just use the Task Parallel Library.

You can do this as a single, simple Parallel.For loop with your tasks, and it will automatically manage this fairly cleanly. If you can't wait for C# 4 and Microsoft's implementation, a temporary workaround is to just compile and use the Mono Implementation of TPL. (I personally prefer the MS implementation, especially the newer beta releases, but the Mono one is functional and redistributable today.)