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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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BlockingCollection(Of T)

The BlockingCollection(Of T) is a special concurrent collection. At the highest level such a collection has two characteristics. The first is that if a thread attempts to retrieve items from the collection while it is empty, the thread is blocked until some items are added to the collection. The second one is that if a thread attempts to add items to the collection, but this has reached the maximum number of items possible; the thread is blocked until some space is freed in the collection. Another interesting feature is completion. You can mark the collection as complete so that no other items can be added. This is accomplished via the CompleteAdding instance method. After you invoke this method, if a thread attempts ...

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