title: TPL - How can I force TPL to use fixed # of threads? not less
body: <p>How can I force TPL to use a fixed number of threads?  I know MaxDegreeOfParallelism can be used to set the upper limit, but I want the upper limit to equal the lower limit. Is this possible? How?</p>
  
  <p>Because I know someone will ask =) yes, I'm sure I want to do this and yes its optimal for my scneario. =)</p>
  
  <p><B>EDIT</B><BR>
  The solution requires a custom Partitioner as well as the custom TaskScheduler <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/parallelextensions/thread/002ff888-6e13-4d7e-a234-1632e8a1f551" rel="nofollow">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/parallelextensions/thread/002ff888-6e13-4d7e-a234-1632e8a1f551</a></p>