Multithreading with C# Cookbook - Second Edition

Implementing Lazy-evaluated shared states

This recipe shows how to program a Lazy-evaluated, thread-safe shared state object.

Getting ready

To start this recipe, you will need to run Visual Studio 2015. There are no other prerequisites. The source code for this recipe can be found at BookSamples\Chapter10\Recipe1.

How to do it...

To implement Lazy-evaluated shared states, perform the following steps:

1. Start Visual Studio 2015. Create a new C# console application project.
2. In the Program.cs file, add the following using directives:

   using System;
   using System.Threading;
   using System.Threading.Tasks;
   using static System.Console;
   using static System.Threading.Thread;

3. Add the following code snippet below the Main method:

   static async Task ProcessAsynchronously() ...