TPL Data Flow
The TPL DataFlow exposes classes to manipulate data asynchronously. It is based on the Task library and on two the interfaces ISourceBlock<T> and ITargetBlock<T>.
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System.Threading.Tasks
In essence, the classes in this namespace serve the same purpose as the IJob interface and the JobDispatcher classes. But the implementation is quite different.
Read more2 cents on the concurrent collections
IProducerConsumerCollection< T> is the starting point. It is an interface derived from ICollection and IEnumerator
3 simple JobDispatcher
In a previous post, I implemented a JobDispatcher using a queue and a BackgroundWorker. There are 3 simple JobDispatcher I'd like to implement now:
a NullJobDispatcher, that, basically does nothing, a SynchronousJobDispatcher, that execute the job when it is dispatched, a ReactorJobDispatcher, that uses the ThreadPool.
Read moreTime *not* to refactor the JobDispatcher class
The JobDispatcher has to tasks to perform: keeping track of the dispatched jobs and executing them.
So, at one point, Marc and I discussed about adding a virtual Execute(IJob job) method that would Execute the job. This way, inheritors could add tracking or exception handling.
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