WaitingReadCount Property

ReaderWriterLockSlim.WaitingReadCount Property

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Gets the total number of threads that are waiting to enter the lock in read mode.

Namespace:  System.Threading
Assembly:  System.Core (in System.Core.dll)

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property WaitingReadCount As Integer

Property Value

Type: System.Int32
The total number of threads that are waiting to enter read mode.

Use this property only for debugging, profiling, and logging purposes, and not to control the behavior of an algorithm. The results can change as soon as they have been calculated. Therefore, it is not safe to make decisions based on this property.

The following example shows how to use the WaitingReadCount property to generate an event log entry if the number of threads that are blocked, waiting to enter read mode, exceeds a threshold.

Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0

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