C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Parallel.Invoke() Method

Many times in software development, we want to invoke several processes at one time and continue when we get all the results back. Obviously, if we were needing to process a sequence of items in a similar matter, we could use PLINQ. Unfortunately, when the things we want to invoke asynchronously are heterogeneous tasks, PLINQ doesn’t really fit the bill. Today we will look at a handy method in the Parallel class that can help us accomplish this.