CSyncCollection

The CSyncCollection was designed to be an MFC class which that acts as a templatized collection which implements thread synchronisation with timeouts for both adding and removing.

Generally speaking, in order to avoid race conditions and deadlocks, it is necessary to synchronize the access by multiple threads to the shared resources. Moreover, the aforementioned synchronization can also be helpful to ensure that the independent code is executed in the proper sequence.

This synchronization is ensured by various objects working simultaneously, namely events, timers, threads, processes, semaphores, mutexes or and console input buffers, just to name a few. The problem that can occur when manipulating them is that when you specify a handle to any of them in a call to one of the wait functions, the execution of the thread is blocked until the state of the objects becomes signaled.

Thanks to this templatized collection, you can use the Add function while specifying a timeout to wait for in the eventuality that the collection is full. When employing the Remove function for the data in the collection, you can again specify the timeout if the collection is empty.

Making the class templatized means that you can store any type of data you want on in it. In addition templates are used to define various collection types. The code comes with predefined templates for both a stack and queue collection and it relies on STL containers.