>Let's ask Viv/Bonnie
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>I think if you add an initializer to the dictionary of Framework.App, or add code to initialize the dictionary in the Framework.App constructor, you do not need a lock
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>Viv, Bonnie - anyone ?

Based on what I read in the last few messages, it does seem that we need it, which is what I discovered a few weeks ago which led to this architecture.