You can find information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff963552.aspx . Basically, you just use Parallel. For(0, n, x => doSomething) .
That takes care of parallelization. This is a functionality of PLINQ that is extremely easy to use an in my experience works quite well.
I think this is what you are looking for: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/71285/Introducing-NET-4-0-Parallel-Programming.
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