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Use the BlockingCollection with ConcurrentQueue

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From the course: Advanced C#: Thread-Safe Data with Concurrent Collections

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Use the BlockingCollection with ConcurrentQueue

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- [Instructor] Here I'm creating a variable of type, blocking collection, and I'm storing values of integer in the blocking collection. Then in the main method, I instantiate this, if I don't tell the blocking collection, which concurrent collection to use, it will default to concurrent queue. So that's what's happening here. Now I'm going to have multiple threads running in the application, I'll have the main thread that's running demo, and I'll have two worker threads that I've launched here With these tasks, one task is going to be the producer, which will work with the blocking collection, and the other task will be the consumer. Later in this chapter, I'll look into how to work with multiple consumers and multiple producers, but there's nothing wrong with having a single producer thread and a single consumer thread working in the background. So that's what we'll look at here. The code itself and the…

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