The Producer/Consumer pattern in .NET 4.0+
Since .NET Framework 4.0, there has been a standard BlockingCollection<T> class, so we should prefer using this to create our own implementations such as BoundedBlockingQueue<T>. It contains all the required operations and allows us to choose different element storage strategies using different concurrent collections.
In spite of BlockingCollection<T> implementing the ICollection<T> interface, it is just a wrapper over any general concurrent collection that implements IProducerConsumerCollection<T>. The Blocking part of the collection name means that the Take method blocks until new elements appear in the collection. A more accurate name for this collection would be BoundedBlockingProducerConsumer<T>
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