Tips & Thoughts
April 28, 2020
.NET Framework built-in static methods are thread safe.When creating static methods, it is a best practice to make them thread safe. Thread Affinity Thread that instantiate an object is the only thread that is allowed to access its members. (Like WPF UI thread)One of the advantages of having thread affinity is that we may not need to use a lock to use instantiated object, since no other thread can access…
April 27, 2020
Exclusive Locks lock(someObject){}Allow only one thread to access a certain section of code. unless and until the thread has not finished executing that code, no other thread will be able to enter.Alternative is to use Monitor.Enter/Monitor.Exit it’s only syntactical difference. behind the scenes, they have the same exact implementation. Two types of exclusive locks Lock Mutex If we give a name to a mutex , that mutex would be accessible…
