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 This is a simple demo VB.NET application that demonstrates: 
- simple multithreading 
 - the XmlTextReader class 
 - the SQLConnection and SQLCommand class 
 - the Directory class 
  
The Creator object generates "trades" as XML files each 
containing a symbol, price and # of shares. The Processor 
object reads them from the directory, extracts the data, 
deletes the file and writes the data to SQL Server. 
 
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