Back To Basics - Race Conditions, Part 1

Posted By: Jason Olson | Oct 13th @ 10:40 AM

Welcome to the "Back To Basics" Screencast Series. In this series of screencasts, we will be taking a look at specific .NET language features, as well as features of the .NET Framework itself. We'll be playing particular attention to how these various features work and why you, as a developer, need to understand how they work.

In the first several screencasts, we'll take a look at several common pitfalls when writing multi-threaded code. In this screencast, we'll dive into race conditions, how they can show up in your code, and what you can do to fix them.

Tags: Back To Basics, Concurrency, CSharp, Parallel Computing, Parallel Extensions, Parallelism

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mavstar
mavstar

Congratulations on a great start to what promises to be an excellent series!

mattv

Nice little introduction to what race conditions are. However, I thought you could dig a little deeper into what Interlocked.Increment does, and also give examples of other methods of locking chunks of code. It's called "Back To Basics" after all.

JasonOlson

In reply to mattv

#Oct 14th @ 9:26 AM

Great ideas Matt. I will dig deeper into Interlocked.Increment in the next Race Conditions screencast. I'll cover other locking methods in a future screencast as well.

Thanks for watching!

JasonOlson

In reply to mavstar

#Oct 13th @ 7:17 PM

Thanks Mavstar!

Hammerstein

I like seeing how things are done, rather than listening to lengthy discussions. I get lost in the terminology sometimes, and find it easier to watch it working. Enjoyed the screencast, thought it was very informative. I agree with Matty in that delving further into the functionality of the methods you described would be helpful. But look forward to seeing this series continue.