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What are the best practices with multithreading in C#?
For a while I have been interested in seeing if some tasks work well when split across multiple threads.
On the one project I have been busy with I have been creating a lot of small utility apps, to ...
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Polling loop to run in a background thread
I came up with the idea of a small utility class that will poll some delegate until the response received meets some condition, upon which it will notify the main thread which can take the appropriate ...
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The correct (and safe) way to use a Timer to poll a Delegate
This is a followup to Polling loop to run in a background thread where I was initially using a single thread and Thread.Sleep() to poll a delegate. I was ...
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Thread-safe wrapper around WCF ServiceModel.ClientBase subclass
I have an ASP.NET application which uses a Service Reference to a (third-party, offsite) payment processor.
The service reference class is generated automatically.
Its implementation is a subclass of ...
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UNC path exists monitor
This is my first attempt at trying to write a "monitor" class to determine if a UNC path is available. I need the monitor to not block the main thread and to also event when the UNC is toggled UP/DOWN ...
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Clean and well-designed Tic-Tac-Toe game
My design goal was to try and make a "clean" and well-designed Tic-Tac-Toe game but also to try and use concepts and programming constructs that I'm new to.
I'm planning to implement an "AI Player" ...
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Getting a decryptor object
I need to lock on my AesManaged instance _Aes to call CreateDecryptor() however the CreateDecryptor() method is not thread safe and this function could be called by ...
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Using a recurring System.Threading.Timer in an Mvc Application
I'd like your opinion on something. I have the following class:
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Designing a better logger class
Could you please critisize the logger class below? Can it be used in a multi threaded web environment? If not how can I improve it? Is there anything wrong with locking in WriteToLog method or ...
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How to correctly get a IDisposeable when you need to lock the factory?
If I need to create a IDisposeable object from a factory, but if the factory object is not thread safe and requires me to lock on it is this the correct pattern to use?
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