Lock keyword in C# | Thread Locking In C#

The lock keyword in C# is used to place around a critical section of code, where we want to allow only one thread to access the resource at a time. Any other thread cannot access the lock and it waits for the lock to be released.

In this post series, we will go through the understanding of the lock keyword,  monitor, mutex, and semaphore available in C#.

All of these classes (lock, monitor, mutex, and semaphore) provide a synchronization mechanism to protect the shared code or resources in a multithreaded application.

CSharp Lock keyword in multithreading
C# Lock keyword

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