Can you lock on a generic dictionary?
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03-07-2019 - |
Question
Or should you always create some other lock object?
Solution
Yes, cast it to an IDictionary and lock on .SyncRoot
:
Generic.Dictionary<int, int> dic = new Generic.Dictionary<int, int>();
lock (((IDictionary)dic).SyncRoot)
{
// code
}
Thanks to this source for the info.
Of course a thread-safe dictionary would be nice, too, as others have suggested.
OTHER TIPS
You can lock on any object that you wish (except value-types). It's recommended though to lock on the .SyncRoot object.
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