How to save multiple files to the disk at the same time in C#

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Hello everyone,
I need to create a simple application that should save the files to disk parallely. For.eg If there are 10 mails, each mail should be read and save the attachments to the disk parallely. How can I do that using multithreading?
1stMail - Performing the task
2ndMail - Performing the task.
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10thMAil- Performing the task.
Similarly all these should be done parallely instead of one after the other.

What I have tried:

C#

foreach (Item item in findResults)
                      {
                          ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(delegate
                          {
                              StartProcess(item);
                          }, null);
                          Thread.Sleep(1000);
                      }

Posted 24-Nov-16 1:21am

User1454

Updated 24-Nov-16 1:43am

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-24T01:43:00

Well, I would suggest that you use the Task Parallel Library instead of the way you're doing it.

On the other hand, when you get right down to it, you can't *technically* write multiple files at the same time because the hard disk heads can only be in one spot at a time. Of course, the exception to this rule would be if you were writing to multiple hard drives, but I'm pretty sure that's not what you're doing.

Since I don't have any code that does what you want, I googled the following phrase - "c# use TPL to write multiple files" - and came up with over 800 thousand possible results. In order not to plagiarize someone else's solution, I leave it to you to find which one is most appropriate for your application.