Gents,
Been a while since I did any VB work, and have started a new project that is a Windows Service that will update a database using multiple threads. I am testing this out with a dataset that consists of a "device name" and a "device IP", pinging the device, and attempting to update the device's "status".

I have it working in a single-thread type configuration, but would like to be able to ping and update different records across multiple threads (for obvious reasons).

The problem I'm having is with the logic mainly. When the service is started, I get all the devices from the database and fill a DataSet. From there, I am looping through the dataset's rows, pinging each device and updating the record. I know how to spawn multiple threads, but I do not know how to keep track of updating the correct record and also making sure that all records are checked in some kind of order. Like, if user specifies 5 threads, I need it to get record 1, thread finishes, gets record 6 (while other threads execute), or something like that.

What's the best approach here.

Note: this does no interface updating or anything like that. Only updates a database record's field value.

Thanks in advance!