C# multi threading query

Question

I am trying to write a program in C# that will connect to around 400 computers and retrieve some information, lets say it retrieves the list of web services running on each computer. I am assuming I need a well threaded application to be able to retrieve info from such a huge number of servers really quick. I am pretty blank on how to start working on this, can you guys give me a head start as to how to begin!

Thanks!

Answer 1

I see no reason why you should use threading in your main logic. Use asynchronous APIs and schedule their callback to the main thread. That way you get the benefits of asynchrony, but without most of the difficulty related to threading.

You'll only need multithreading in your logic code if the work you need to do on the data is that expensive. And even then you usually can get aways with parallelizing using side effect free functions.

Answer 2

Take a look at the Task Parallel Library.

Speficically Data Parallelism.

You could also use PLINQ if you wanted.