Working on a C# project at the minute – a general idea of what I’m trying to do is…
A user has one or more portfolios with symbols they are interested in,
Each portfolio downloads data on the symbols to csv, parses it, then runs a set of rules on the data,
Alerts are generated based on the outcomes of these rules
The portfolios should download the data etc. whenever a set interval has passed
I was planning on having each portfolio running on it’s own thread, that way when the interval has elapsed, each portfolio can proceed to download the data, parse and run the rules on it concurrently, rather than one by one. The alerts should then be pushed onto another thread (!) that contains a queue of alerts. As it receives alerts, it sends them off to a client.
A bit much but what would be the best way to go about this with C# – using threads, or something like background worker and just having the alert-queue running on a separate thread?
Any advice is much appreciated, new to some of this stuff so feel free to tell me if I’m completely wrong 🙂
You can use blocking collection. This is new in c# 4.0 to support producer consumer scenario.
It also supports 1 consumer and multiple producer.