How to remove a single, specific object from a ConcurrentBag<>?

Question

With the new ConcurrentBag in .NET 4, how do you remove a certain, specific object from it when only TryTake() and TryPeek() are

Answer 1

public static void Remove<T>(this ConcurrentBag<T> bag, T item)
{
    while (bag.Count > 0)
    {
        T result;
        bag.TryTake(out result);

        if (result.Equals(item))
        {
            break; 
        }

        bag.Add(result);
    }

}

Answer 2

The ConcurrentBag is great to handle a List where you can add items and enumerate from many thread, then eventually throw it away as its name is suggesting :)

As Mark Byers told, you can re-build a new ConcurrentBag that does not contains the item you wish to remove, but you have to protect this against multiple threads hits using a lock. This is a one-liner:

myBag = new ConcurrentBag<Entry>(myBag.Except(new[] { removedEntry }));

This works, and match the spirit in which the ConcurrentBag has been designed for.

Answer 3

This is my extension class which I am using in my projects. It can a remove single item from ConcurrentBag and can also remove list of items from bag

public static class ConcurrentBag
{
    static Object locker = new object();

    public static void Clear<T>(this ConcurrentBag<T> bag)
    {
        bag = new ConcurrentBag<T>();
    }


    public static void Remove<T>(this ConcurrentBag<T> bag, List<T> itemlist)
    {
        try
        {
            lock (locker)
            {
                List<T> removelist = bag.ToList();

                Parallel.ForEach(itemlist, currentitem => {
                    removelist.Remove(currentitem);
                });

                bag = new ConcurrentBag<T>();


                Parallel.ForEach(removelist, currentitem =>
                {
                    bag.Add(currentitem);
                });
            }

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
        }
    }

    public static void Remove<T>(this ConcurrentBag<T> bag, T removeitem)
    {
        try
        {
            lock (locker)
            {
                List<T> removelist = bag.ToList();
                removelist.Remove(removeitem);                

                bag = new ConcurrentBag<T>();

                Parallel.ForEach(removelist, currentitem =>
                {
                    bag.Add(currentitem);
                });
            }

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
        }
    }
}