Design Workflow with a thread to handle c#

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Hello, I'm new in the design workflow.
I have a question:
I have a graphics interface unit, a desired workflow state machine and a thread that polls a hardware device and receives a response every 1 ms (approximately) via RS232.
These responses may alter the state machine.
The GID may modify the state machine.
I found lots of examples for host-workflow communication, but I do not know how to handle this thread.
Could you help me and give me some suggestions?
Bye

Posted 6-Jun-11 3:56am

Franck Tulli

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-06-06T07:24:00

Solution 2

In addition to the solution by Kim:

Queue is not enough. Communication requires a blocking queue.
If you're not using .NET 4, or you are but want to know how to use it, please use my Tips/Trick article with full source code and detailed usage samples:
Simple Blocking Queue for Thread Communication and Inter-thread Invocation[^].

—SA

Posted 6-Jun-11 7:24am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Kim Togo 6-Jun-11 14:25pm

My 5 for the good Tips/Tricks

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Jun-11 14:30pm

Thank you, Kim.
--SA

thatraja 6-Jun-11 23:41pm

It's a good Tip/Trick SA, Already in my bookmarks

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Jun-11 23:45pm

Thank you, Raja.
--SA

Kim Togo · Answer 2 · 2011-06-06T07:21:00

Use a Queue<T>[^] to enqueue the received data and have another thread dequeue the data for processing.

If you are use .NET 4, then use the new ConcurrentQueue<T>[^] class. Check this link BlockingCollection and IProducerConsumerCollection[^]

Workflow can be:
1. Receive data on RS232 / Serial port.
2. Pre process data received.
3. Enqueue data in an Queue class.
4. Repeat, goto step 1

In another thread you then:
1. Dequeue an Queue class.
2. Post process data.
3. Do the your thing.
4. Repeat, goto step 1.