ConcurrentQueue(Of T)
The ConcurrentQueue(Of T) collection is just a thread-safe implementation of the Queue(Of T) collection; therefore, it takes the logic of FIFO (First-In, First Out), where the first element in the collection is the first to be removed. The following code shows an example:
The main difference with Queue is how items are removed from the queue. In this concurrent implementation, you invoke TryDequeue, which passes the removed item to a result variable by reference. The method returns True in cases of success, otherwise False. Still the Count property returns the number of items in the queue.
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