Wait, you never said that I had to initialize the object before I used it!

Raymond Chen August 23, 2012 Aug 23, 2012 08/23/12

A customer reported that they were having trouble creating slim reader/writer locks at runtime. They simplified the issue to a short program: "What is the correct way of creating an SRWLOCK via the new operator?" It wasn't long before somebody noted that nowhere in the code is the function Initialize­SRW­Lock called. "Oh, yeah...