How do I specify the equivalent of volatile in VB.net?

Question

I\'m attempting to write a lock-free version of a call queue I use for message passing. This is not for anything serious, just to learn about threading.

I\'m relativ

Answer 1

Starting in .NET 4.5, they added two new methods to the BCL to simulate the volatile keyword: Volatile.Read and Volatile.Write. They should be totally equivalent to reading/writing a volatile field. You can clearly use them in VB.NET . They are better (where better == faster) than the Thread.VolatileRead/Thread.VolatileWrite because they use half fences instead of full fences.