Use the Interlocked object : Interlocked « Thread « C# / CSharp Tutorial

1. C# / CSharp Tutorial
2. Thread
3. Interlocked

using System;
using System.Threading;

class MainClass
{
  private int Runs = 0;

  public void CountUp() 
  {
    while (Runs < 10)
    {
      Interlocked.Increment(ref Runs);
      Console.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentThread.Name + " " + Runs);
      Thread.Sleep(1000);
    } 
  }

  public static void Main() 
  {
    MainClass ex = new MainClass();
    ex.RunThreads();
  }

  public void RunThreads()
  {
    Thread t2 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(CountUp));
    t2.Name = "t2";
    Thread t3 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(CountUp));
    t3.Name = "t3";
    t2.Start();
    t3.Start();
  }
}

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