locking Property without a private variable

Question

Basically I want to achieve using a lock to a property that has no private variable, the goal is to have thread safe Properties instead of doing it manually each time.

But not sure how to write that, so the lines aren't red! :)

    public class TestingLOL
    {
        public int Id { get; set; } // Working non private property but is not thread safe.

        public int IdWithLock { get => lock (this); set; } // this is what im trying to achieve without a private property.

        private int shitMethod;
        public int ShitMethod // fuck this way
        {
            get
            {
                ;
                lock (this)
                    return shitMethod;
            }
            set
            {
                ;
                lock (this)
                    shitMethod = value;
            }
        }
    }

Necessary to show error highlighting. But posted code too now. — Andy x, Apr 01 '22 at 00:12
Locking an `int` getter is not useful at all as reading an `int` is an atomic operation. — Klaus Gütter, Apr 01 '22 at 04:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '22 at 00:14

For this to work you have to use the name of that backing field

 public int IdWithLock { get => { lock (this){return XXXX;}}; set; }

but that name is not available to you (see nice long discussion here Is it possible to access backing fields behind auto-implemented properties?)

You just gonna have to do it the shty way

locking Property without a private variable

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