Is there a .Net equivalent to java.util.concurrent.Executor?

Question

Have a long running set of discrete tasks: parsing 10s of thousands of lines from a text file, hydrating into objects, manipulating, and persisting.

If I were implement

Answer 1

Maybe this is related: Design: Task Parallel Library explored. See 10-4 Episode 6: Parallel Extensions as a quick intro.

For older thread-based approach, there's ThreadPool for pooling.