> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Johnston > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:11 AM > I have not really heard the term "Thread-Aware" so I am not sure how > to define it. As for thread-safe, according to answers.com[1] it is > defined as "a piece of code is thread-safe if it is reentrant or > protected from multiple simultaneous execution by some form of mutual > exclusion." > > I tried thread-aware and didn't come up with anything. > > [1]http://www.answers.com/thread-safe Got me wondering as well. Could thread-aware be a term describing of how the Hashtables are implemented in .NET? While not necessarily Thread-safe themselves, there is a mechanism by which you can synchronize access to the object. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemCollectionsHas htableClassTopic.asp?frame=true And then its SyncRoot property: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemCollectionsHas htableClassSyncRootTopic.asp?frame=true <><><><><><><><><><> Joshua Olson Web Application Engineer WAE Tech Inc. http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/ 706.210.0168