Synchronizing Threads
Understand the challenges of shared resources in multithreaded C# applications and learn how to use synchronization to prevent race conditions. Explore critical sections and techniques to ensure thread-safe operations for predictable, reliable program behavior.
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Having multiple threads in an application allows us to perform several tasks in parallel. When different threads work with shared resources, such as a global variable or a file, we must consider the potential for conflicts.
Using shared resources
Consider a banking scenario where we have a shared balance variable. Before we add multithreading, let’s look at how a simple deposit operation works normally.
The Deposit() method adds $100 to the balance. If we call this method sequentially (one after another), the logic is predictable ...