Monitor.Enter and Monitor.Exit in different threads

Question

Monitor.Enter and Monitor.Exit are designed to be called from the same thread. But, what if I need to release a lock in a different thread than acq

Answer 1

Try using a ManualResetEvent, it's used to block thead(s) until some external event has been triggered. MSDN Doc:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.manualresetevent.aspx