Multithreading

Developers are allowed to create multiple threads within a process and manage them throughout the program's execution. This allows us to focus on the application logic instead of managing threads. However, starting with .NET Framework 4, we can create multithreaded programs using the following methods:

• TPL
• Parallel Language-Integrated Query(PLINQ)

To understand both of these features, we need to talk about parallel programming.

Parallel programming

Parallel programming helps the developer take advantage of the hardware on workstations where multiple CPU cores are available. They allow multiple threads to be executed in parallel.

In previous versions, parallelization required low-level manipulation of...