Thread safe - What does it mean?

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Hi,

I'm wondering what this exactly means when I see it describing class in MSDN.

"Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe."

What does this mean exactly & how could an "un thread safe" instance affect
an application.

Sorry for what may be a very simple question but i thought i'd get this
cleared up.

Many thanks for any answers
Ant
 
Just a thought...

Would it be analaogous to say in database terms, where a transaction can be
read multiple times but if it's not set to seralizable, various reads by
different 'threads' could take place & return different values if the data
had been updated by another thread?

Ant
 
Hello, Ant!

A> I'm wondering what this exactly means when I see it describing class in
A> MSDN.

A> "Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe."

A> What does this mean exactly & how could an "un thread safe" instance
A> affect an application.

A> Sorry for what may be a very simple question but i thought i'd get this
A> cleared up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-safe

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