I have an application in C# with a list of work to do. I'm looking to do as much of that work as possible in parallel. However I need to be able to control the maximum amount of parallel tasks.
From what I understand this is possible with a ThreadPool or with Tasks. Is there an difference in which one I use? My main concern is being able to control how many threads are active at one time.
Please take a look at ParallelOptions.MaxDegreeOfParallelism for Tasks.
I would advise you to use Tasks, because they provide a higher level abstraction than the ThreadPool.
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