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I am working on a multi threaded WindowsPhone8 app that has critical sections within async methods. Does anyone know of a way to properly use semaphores / mutexes in C# where you are using nested ...

I have this C# code: public class Locking { private int Value1; private int Value2; private object lockValue = new Object(); public int GetInt1(int value1, int value2) { ...

Extra question Does SemaphoreSlim(1, 1) still ensures that I have the correct output 1000000, even if task1 and task2 run on 2 different cores? Original question Considering the following code snippet,...

Let's say I have a form with two buttons (button1 and button2) and a resource object (r). The resource has its own locking and unlocking code to handle concurrency. The resource could be modified by ...

Semaphores are a multi-threading locking mechanism that ensure that only a limited number of threads are running on a given resource. Mutexes are a special case where that limited number is one. ...

I have a method StartProcess(). I want this method to throw an exception if the same method is called by another thread at the same time or by the same initial thread before EndProcess() is called. I ...

I might be overthinking this, but I'm not sure I understand how locking works when dealing with await/async. Given the following, after each await a different thread can return to execute the next bit ...

Given a scenario where there's a function that should only be executed by one thread at any given time, and the rest just return (since a specific state is already being worked on), what's the best ...

My backend application takes byte arrays that represent image data and applies certain transformations to it, like changing the resolution and such, and then stores this modified data to disk. During ...

I began to study lock and immediately a question arose. It docs.microsoft says here: The lock statement acquires the mutual-exclusion lock for a given object, executes a statement block, and then ...