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

The BackgroundWorker class is probably what you're looking for. As the name implies, it allows you to run background tasks, with automatically managed pooling, and status update events.