C# Events and Thread Safety

Question

UPDATE

As of C# 6, the answer to this question is:

SomeEvent?.Invoke(this, e);

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Answer 1

According to Jeffrey Richter in the book CLR via C#, the correct method is:

// Copy a reference to the delegate field now into a temporary field for thread safety
EventHandler temp =
Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref NewMail, null, null);
// If any methods registered interest with our event, notify them
if (temp != null) temp(this, e);

Because it forces a reference copy. For more information, see his Event section in the book.