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Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++® .NET in 24 Hours
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Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++® .NET in 24 Hours

by Richard Simon, Mark Schmidt
April 2002
Beginner
413 pages
10h 46m
English
Sams
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Thread Synchronization

Any time multiple threads are running within an application, you run the risk of accessing the same data at the same time. While one thread is writing data to a variable, another thread could also be doing the same. As you can see, this type of behavior is undefined and can lead to any number of problems. To solve this, you must use thread synchronization.

For this application you will use the .NET Framework class Monitor to control how your two threads synchronize with each other. The Monitor class is similar to using critical sections in which once a lock is obtained on an object, no other thread can obtain the lock until it released by the original thread. To obtain a lock on an object, you can use the static member ...

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