Therad safety

[Den2Fly]

Hi buddies, If more than one thread may enter .NET collections (ArrayList, NameObjectCollectionBase, ...) Add() methods should I enclose the code that calls Add() in a lock statement? Also can you tell me a general rule to underestand when I SHOULD call some method only inside a lock statement in a multi-threaded app? Thank you so much, - Mohammad --- "Art happens when you least expect it."

[Guffa]

From MSDN documentation on ArrayList: "Public static members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Instance members are not guaranteed to be thread-safe." As Add() is an instance member, it's not guaranteed to be thread safe, so you should use lock. The documentation should contain thread safety information for all classes. --- b { font-weight: normal; }

[leppie]

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[Den2Fly]

Yes, thank you Guffa. --- "Art happens when you least expect it."

[Den2Fly]

Thank you leppie --- "Art happens when you least expect it."

[Den2Fly]

Thank yo leppie --- "Art happens when you least expect it."