ArrayList::IsSynchronized Property
Gets a value indicating whether access to the ArrayList is synchronized (thread safe).
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System::Booleantrue if access to the ArrayList is synchronized (thread safe); otherwise, false. The default is false.
Implements
ICollection::IsSynchronizedTo guarantee the thread safety of the ArrayList, all operations must be done through the wrapper returned by the Synchronized method.
Enumerating through a collection is intrinsically not a thread-safe procedure. Even when a collection is synchronized, other threads can still modify the collection, which causes the enumerator to throw an exception. To guarantee thread safety during enumeration, you can either lock the collection during the entire enumeration or catch the exceptions resulting from changes made by other threads.
The following code example shows how to lock the collection using the SyncRoot during the entire enumeration.
Retrieving the value of this property is an O(1) operation.
The following code example shows how to synchronize an ArrayList, determine if an ArrayList is synchronized and use a synchronized ArrayList.
using namespace System; using namespace System::Collections; int main() { // Creates and initializes a new ArrayList instance. ArrayList^ myAL = gcnew ArrayList; myAL->Add( "The" ); myAL->Add( "quick" ); myAL->Add( "brown" ); myAL->Add( "fox" ); // Creates a synchronized wrapper around the ArrayList. ArrayList^ mySyncdAL = ArrayList::Synchronized( myAL ); // Displays the sychronization status of both ArrayLists. String^ szRes = myAL->IsSynchronized ? (String^)"synchronized" : "not synchronized"; Console::WriteLine( "myAL is {0}.", szRes ); String^ szSyncRes = mySyncdAL->IsSynchronized ? (String^)"synchronized" : "not synchronized"; Console::WriteLine( "mySyncdAL is {0}.", szSyncRes ); } /* This code produces the following output. myAL is not synchronized. mySyncdAL is synchronized. */
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