Tutorial by Examples: deadlocks

A deadlock occurs when every member of some group of two or more threads must wait for one of the other members to do something (e.g., to release a lock) before it can proceed. Without intervention, the threads will wait forever. A pseudocode example of a deadlock-prone design is: thread_1 { ...

A deadlock is what occurs when two or more threads are waiting for eachother to complete or to release a resource in such a way that they wait forever. A typical scenario of two threads waiting on eachother to complete is when a Windows Forms GUI thread waits for a worker thread and the worker thre...

A deadlock is what occurs when two or more threads are waiting for eachother to complete or to release a resource in such a way that they wait forever. If thread1 holds a lock on resource A and is waiting for resource B to be released while thread2 holds resource B and is waiting for resource A to ...

It is a bad practice to block on async calls as it can cause deadlocks in environments that have a synchronization context. The best practice is to use async/await "all the way down." For example, the following Windows Forms code causes a deadlock: private async Task<bool> TryThis()...