Question

I was reading about threading and about locking. It is common practise that you can’t (well should not) lock a value type.

So the question is, what is the recommended way of locking a value type? I know there’s a few ways to go about doing one thing but I haven’t seen an example. Although there was a good thread on MSDN forums but I can’t seem to find that now.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use another object for the lock.

int valueType; object valueTypeLock = new object();  void Foo() {     lock (valueTypeLock)     {         valueType = 0;     } }