Cool,

I always looked at the methods of the class and never at the class itself.
You opened my eyes.

Thanks,
Eddie

-----Original Message-----
From: Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics.
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Schmied
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Is access to Console.WriteLine
synchronized by the .Net framework?


> I have a multi-threaded application that does a lot of tracing in the
> console window. Do I have to worry about synchronizing the access to the
> Console.WriteLine method or this is taken care by the framework? I don't
> think calls to the WriteLine method are atomic.

Why don't you think so?

<quote>
.NET Framework Class Library
Console Class

[...]

Thread Safety

This type is safe for multithreaded operations.

[...]

This class uses synchronized TextReader and TextWriter instances. Multiple
threads can concurrently read from or write to an instance of this type.
</quote>

Source:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemConsoleClassTo
pic.asp

Fabian

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