CA2003: Do not treat fibers as threads

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac

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Item	Value
RuleId	CA2003
Category	Microsoft.Reliability
Breaking change	Non-breaking

Cause

A managed thread is being treated as a Win32 thread.

Note

This rule has been deprecated. For more information, see Deprecated rules.

Rule description

Do not assume a managed thread is a Win32 thread; it's a fiber. The common language runtime (CLR) runs managed threads as fibers in the context of real threads that are owned by SQL. These threads can be shared across AppDomains and even databases in the SQL Server process. Using managed thread local storage works, but you may not use unmanaged thread local storage or assume that your code will run on the current OS thread again. Do not change settings such as the locale of the thread. Do not call CreateCriticalSection or CreateMutex via P/Invoke because they require that the thread that enters a lock must also exit the lock. Because the thread that enters a lock doesn't exit a lock when you use fibers, Win32 critical sections and mutexes are useless in SQL. You may safely use most of the state on a managed Thread object, including managed thread local storage and the current user interface (UI) culture of the thread. However, for programming model reasons, you won't be able to change the current culture of a thread when you use SQL. This limitation will be enforced through a new permission.

How to fix violations

Examine your usage of threads and change your code accordingly.

When to suppress warnings

Do not suppress this rule.