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[florindaniel]

Hello,

I need to develop a solution for handling random events: random complexity (size of data to be processed) and
random time.

I prospect two solutions:
- A monitoring system wich will initate different threads for each event
or
- A monitoring system wich will launch different instances of exe-s dedicated to that data processing.

Wich one of this would you reccomend? Or maybe another one?


Thank you,
Daniel.

 

[MakeItSo]

Hi Daniel,

Sounds similar to what I once needed:
A project automation solution: files of varying number, size and type would come in and would need to be automatically processed in the background.
I solved this with hangfire:

http://hangfire.io/

It has a job queue and recurring jobs.
So you could use a folder monitor(?) solution, that will put whatever lands there in the hangfire job queue and let hf handle the rest.

MakeItSo

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[florindaniel]

Wow, great solution. I will Make It So ))

Folder monitoring is in the background indeed.
I can't afford, however, 5000 USD but I hope the free version works fine.

Thank you,
Daniel

 

[MakeItSo]

The free version should absolutely suffice.
The software is relatively easy to use, you find a number of examples - and if all fails, you can post here.

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[NoCoolHandle]

I would probably opt for spawing a thread.. either a background worker or a new thread.. My feeling is a background worker may be better than going for the raw thread class as synchronizing the results of its work is much easier, especially if there is a chance that you may have more than one running at a time.