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Asked: 2026-06-17T10:56:50+00:00

I know that the accepted practice is to use DataContext in the Unit of

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I know that the accepted practice is to use DataContext in the Unit of Work pattern but I came across this statement from MSDN:

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

As I read it, if a DataContext is declared as static it is thread safe.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.linq.datacontext.aspx

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, that is not correct.

    What that is saying is that static members of DataContext itself are thread safe – not static instances of it.

    Note that this is pretty much the standard for most classes in .NET. (with allowance for disagreement on what ‘most’ means). I am not immediately aware of any static members of DataContext.

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