C# equivalent to java's wait and notify?

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I am aware that you can lock an object in c# using lock but can you give up the lock and wait for something else to notify you that it's changed like you can in java with wait and notify? It seems to me that synchronised and lock in java and c# respectively are synonomous.

Accepted Answer

The equivalent functionality (including the normal locking) is in the Monitor class.

```
foo.notify() => Monitor.Pulse(foo)
foo.notifyAll() => Monitor.PulseAll(foo)
foo.wait() =>  Monitor.Wait(foo)
```

The `lock` statement in C# is equivalent to calling `Monitor.Enter` and `Monitor.Exit` with an appropriate try/finally block.

See my threading tutorial or Joe Albahari's one for more details.

C# equivalent to java's wait and notify?

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