Lock only on an Id

Question

I have a method which needs to run exclusivley run a block of code, but I want to add this restriction only if it is really required. Depending on an Id value (an Int32) I w

Answer 1

I use a similar approach to lock resources for related items rather than a blanket resource lock... It works perfectly.

Your almost there but you really don't need to remove the object from the dictionary; just let the next object with that id get the lock on the object.

Surely there is a limit to the number of unique ids in your application? What is that limit?