C# Asynchronous call without EndInvoke?

Question

Take the following classes as an example.

public class A
{
   // ...
   void Foo(S myStruct){...}
}

public class B
{
   public A test;
   // ...
   void Bar         


        

Answer 1

I would say that your best option is to use the ThreadPool:

void bar()
{
    ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(o=>
    {
        S myStruct = new S();
        test.foo(myStruct);
    });
}

This will queue the snippet for execution in a separate thread. Now you also have to be careful about something else: if you have multiple threads accessing the same instance of A and that instance modifies a variable, then you must ensure that you do proper synchronization of the variable.

public class A
{
    private double sum;
    private volatile bool running;
    private readonly object sync;
    public A()
    {
        sum = 0.0;
        running = true;
        sync = new object();
    }

    public void foo(S myStruct)
    {
        // You need to synchronize the whole block because you can get a race
        // condition (i.e. running can be set to false after you've checked
        // the flag and then you would be adding the sum when you're not 
        // supposed to be).
        lock(sync)
        {
            if(running)
            {
                sum+=myStruct.Value;
            }
        }
    }

    public void stop()
    {
        // you don't need to synchronize here since the flag is volatile
        running = false;
    }
}