Looking for a specific data structure

Question

Hey I'm looking for a datastructure like a ordinary queue it just need support for adding items with a timeout in seconds. When the given timeout occurs the item should automatically be removed from the queue. Any ideas ?

Alan · Answer

To the best of my knowledge there's nothing like that in the .NET Framework.

Hest · Answer

I know i can override the methods. My question is if there's a existing data structure where you can add items with a timeout ?

Alan · Answer

I'd just derive from the System.Collections.Queue class (or its generic equivalent) and override the virtual Enqueue and Dequeue methods to provide the timeout feature: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.queue.aspx