C# Events and Thread Safety

Question

UPDATE

As of C# 6, the answer to this question is:

SomeEvent?.Invoke(this, e);

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Answer 1

This practice is not about enforcing a certain order of operations. It's actually about avoiding a null reference exception.

The reasoning behind people caring about the null reference exception and not the race condition would require some deep psychological research. I think it has something to do with the fact that fixing the null reference problem is much easier. Once that is fixed, they hang a big "Mission Accomplished" banner on their code and unzip their flight suit.

Note: fixing the race condition probably involves using a synchronous flag track whether the handler should run