Accelerated C# 2008

uncertainty, do so. Therefore, I recommend against locking via the this keyword, and I suggest

instead using a private instance of System.Object as your lock. You could achieve the same effect if

there were some way to declare the sync block flag of an object private, but alas, that is not possible.

Beware of Boxing

When you’re using the Monitor methods to implement locking, internally Monitor uses the sync

block of object instances to manage the lock. Since every object instance can potentially have a

sync block, you can use any reference to an object, even an object reference to a boxed value. Even

though you can, you should never pass a value type instance to Monitor.Enter, as demonstrated in

the following code example:

using System;

using System.Threading; ...