Hashtable.IsSynchronized Property

Definition

Gets a value indicating whether access to the Hashtable is synchronized (thread safe).

C#
public virtual bool IsSynchronized { get; }

Property Value

true if access to the Hashtable is synchronized (thread safe); otherwise, false. The default is false.

Implements

Examples

The following example shows how to synchronize a Hashtable, determine if a Hashtable is synchronized, and use a synchronized Hashtable.

C#
using System;
using System.Collections;

public class SamplesHashtable2
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        // Creates and initializes a new Hashtable.
        var myHT = new Hashtable();
        myHT.Add(0, "zero");
        myHT.Add(1, "one");
        myHT.Add(2, "two");
        myHT.Add(3, "three");
        myHT.Add(4, "four");

        // Creates a synchronized wrapper around the Hashtable.
        Hashtable mySyncdHT = Hashtable.Synchronized(myHT);

        // Displays the sychronization status of both Hashtables.
        Console.WriteLine("myHT is {0}.", myHT.IsSynchronized ? "synchronized" : "not synchronized");
        Console.WriteLine("mySyncdHT is {0}.", mySyncdHT.IsSynchronized ? "synchronized" : "not synchronized");
    }
}

/*
This code produces the following output.

myHT is not synchronized.
mySyncdHT is synchronized.
*/

Remarks

A Hashtable can support one writer and multiple readers concurrently. To support multiple writers, 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:

C#
var myCollection = new Hashtable();
lock (myCollection.SyncRoot)
{
    foreach (object item in myCollection)
    {
        // Insert your code here.
    }
}

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0

See also