Extending the Threading Model
At this point, we have created a multithreaded service by adding a worker thread. However, we are currently limited to one worker thread. We’re going to change that now.
We have a few ways to resolve the fact that we’re using only one worker thread. A couple of factors affect what we decide to do. First, we need to consider the requirements of the problem we are trying to solve. Currently we’re polling a file location to determine whether any .txt files exist and, if they do, reacting to that information.
To determine the threading model we need, we have to ask several questions:
Can we monitor more than one file folder?
Can we monitor more than one file type per folder?
Can we move files of diffent types to different ...
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