AsyncLock

A naive implementation of async lock

https://github.com/ebalynn/AsyncLock

Behind the scenes the implementation uses SemaphoreSlim to do all the heavy lifting which already has a support for async/await.

You would normally use AsyncLock within a “using” statement. To keep the implementation as simple as possible I do not use any cancellation tokens for any of the operations.

Usage:

private readonly AsyncLock _lock = new AsyncLock();
public async Task DoSomethingAsync()
{
  using (await _lock.EnterAsync())
  {
    await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
  }
}

Simples

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C#: Thread Safe Event calls

Sudhanshu's Ode to Code

Hello World,

While working on a multi-threaded Windows service that used events heavily, I did some research on how to trigger events in a thread safe manner. Inevitably, one looks for reference material or books that have the respect of the community and Jeffery Richter’s CLR via C# is one such resource.

The Context

In the chapter on Events (Chapter 11, pg 265 in the eBook), Jeffery summarizes the first 3 steps of how to raise events in a thread safe manner by providing a snippet for an extension method that can do this as such:

The above code is supposed to be an improvement over the following way where one uses a temp variable to store the passed in delegate instance and then compares the temp to null:

The reason why he proposes the code in the extension method over the simpler approach above is that though in theory…

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