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S.Richmond
S.Richmond

Reputation: 11558

Is there an alternative to C# TPL Dataflow for C++?

I recently posted a question on Using Delegates to simulate connected objects where I received a great answer on using the TPL DataFlow library to very easily and cleanly develop a solution to my application.

The problem is that I am stuck on .NET 3.5 or under for C#. I thought I might have been able to upgrade to .NET 4.5 be I cannot at this stage. As far as I've been able to determine I cannot retarget the Dataflow library to .NET 3.5 so my next solution is to look for a C++ alternative under a similar vein to that of TPL Dataflow - Its not the best scenario but I can compile C++ code to a DLL and import it to our C# application.

To summarize my requirements for a C++ library for this question:

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1247

Answers (1)

svick
svick

Reputation: 244837

You might consider using mono's version of TPL Dataflow and compiling it yourself for .Net 3.5.

I think the biggest problem you'll encounter when trying to compile that code is that it relies heavily on TPL, which is not normally available for .Net 3.5. But it seems a backported version is available in older versions of Rx, so using that could work.

(Also, parts of the mono's version of TDF was written by me and I didn't receive pretty much any feedback about it, so it's quite certain there are bugs in there.)

Upvotes: 2

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