Parallel programming has been supported in .NET since the start and it has gained a strong footing since the introduction of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) from .NET framework 4.0 onward.
Multithreading is a subset of parallel programming and is one of the least understood aspects of programming; it's one that many new developers struggle to understand. C# has evolved significantly since its inception. It has very strong support, not only for multithreading but also for asynchronous programming. Multithreading in C# goes way back to C# version 1.0. C# is primarily synchronous, but with the strong async support that has been added from C# 5.0 onward, it has become the first choice for application programmers. Whereas multithreading only deals with how to parallelize within processes, parallel programming also deals with inter-process communication...
