I am porting some code to use generics. Currently, we have a
synchronized Hashtable called as follows:
private Hashtable table = Hashtable.Synchronized (new Hashtable ());
What I would like to do is to port this to a Dictionary so that it can
be type-safe:
private Dictionary<string,stringtable = new Dictionary<string,string>
();
But this loses our synchronization. I was suprised to find that there
is no built-in method for an automatically synchronized Dictionary. So
what should I do?
Some options:
* add 'volatile' keyword to declaration
* wrap all modifications of the table with lock(table) { ... }
* use some other locking mechanism
* stick to using Hashtable for now, threading hurts my my head and its
better to just leave it alone and not break the whole thing :-)
Thanks!
Tamara