C#-APP: Multi-threading file processing

[Thanneman]

Hi There,

I have a question about a program I'm writing.

The program has to do the following:
1) recursive look files in directory
2) process all the files found in the directories

Point 1 works excellent, it looks all the directories specified and uses threading to do so.
The files found are stored in a listview ( and now also in a temp table in SQL).

What I would like to do is point 2.
This has to happen as soon as there is 1 file found, and it has to be another, or multiple threads, because of the speed of the program.

I don't really know how to start multiple threads (for example 10 at the time) to process my files...
The fileprocessing has to read all the contents of the file and store the contents in a database (the files are INI structured files)

Could somebody please help me with this?

Thanx
Nathan

[Plater]

Are you using the Directory.GetFiles() function (with the overload that says to look in subfolders too) ?

That aside. Have you checked into a Queue object? (I think it's under System.Collections somewhere) it has a first in / first out thing that could be used with a mutex to make sure the threads go in order?

If you make one thread do what you want to do, spawn like 9 more to do the same thing?

[Thanneman]

Hi Plater,

Indeed I'm using Directory.GetFiles(path, pattern).

Thank you for the suggestion for the Queue object (System.Collections or System.Collections.Generic)
Tomorrow I will give it a try to play around with the Queue object and the Mutex.

I'll let you know ..

Nathan