Locking is a way of ensuring that a resource can only be used by a single thread at one time. Every thread that wishes to use the locked item must wait its turn, so that operations are performed sequentially. This series processing ensures consistency but can also slow a system down if there is significant waiting for locks to be released.
Locking is also applicable to databases and you may have used it in SQL, but here we will cover it in relation to C# and multithreading in .NET. There are many low level constructs and primitives that can be used for locking. However, we will be taking a more practical approach and showing the high-level locking syntax commonly used in .NET programming.
The standard way to implement locking in C# ...
