C# and thread-safety of a bool

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A little bit late but should be useful to the others.

You can implement your own thread safe boolean in the following way:

// default is false, set 1 for true.
private int _threadSafeBoolBackValue = 0;

public bool ThreadSafeBool
{
    get { return (Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref _threadSafeBoolBackValue, 1, 1) == 1); }
    set
    {
        if (value) Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref _threadSafeBoolBackValue, 1, 0);
        else Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref _threadSafeBoolBackValue, 0, 1);
    }
}

Be sure to use Property everywhere, never access int variable directly.

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