[RESOLVED] Entity Framework and threading

[wolf99]

Hi Folks

Im just getting started with EF (with SQL server) and threading.

My question is about how I should access the context for threads that work with the context?

Should I create a new context per thread or create one and lock on it from each thread that needs to use the context?

Thanks

[jmcilhinney]

If you create multiple contexts then you will have multiple versions of the same data and that's a bad thing. An EF context is just like any other data. You wouldn't create multiple arrays or collections to be used in multiple threads so it doesn't make sense to create multiple EF contexts. If you are going to synchronise access between threads though, don't use the context itself. It's always good practice to create an object solely for the purposes of locking.

[wolf99]

Thanks Jn