How to detect cross thread access in .NET (enforce thread affinity)?

Question

I\'m writing a special data structure that will be available in a .NET library and one of the features of this data structure is that is will be thread safe provided that only o

Answer 1

Rather than compare thread ID's you should store the ambient Thread in your class during construction.

class SingleThreadedClass
{
    private Thread ownerThread;

    public SingleThreadedClass()
    {
        this.ownerThread = Thread.CurrentThread;
    }

    public void Read(...)
    {
        if (Thread.CurrentThread != this.ownerThread)
            throw new InvalidOperationException();
    }

    public void TakeOwnership()
    {
        this.ownerThread = Thread.CurrentThread;
    }
}