Monitor vs lock

Question

When is it appropriate to use either the Monitor class or the lock keyword for thread safety in C#?

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Answer 1

Monitor is more flexible. My favorite use case of using monitor is when you don't want to wait for your turn and just skip:

//already executing? forget it, lets move on
if(Monitor.TryEnter(_lockObject))
{
    //do stuff;
    Monitor.Exit(_lockObject);
}